General view of boats in the marina in Castelnaudary along France's Canal du Midi in 2020 (AFP / REMY GABALDA) The Canal du Midi - a UNESCO World Heritage site that runs from Toulouse to Sète in ...

Where life slips into a lower gear and scenes of southern France slip by like a magic lantern: drowsy villages, riverside markets, fields of corn, lavender, poppies and sunflowers. Stretching for 150 ...

Almost every time we drove our 15 metre canal boat into one of the small oval locks on France’s Canal du Midi, we drew a crowd. It could be our audience was made up of engineering fans there to see ...

A lack of water supply was the obstacle that genius Pierre-Paul Riquet overcame to construct the Canal du Midi in the 17th Century. An engineer from Béziers, his feat in its day was equivalent to ...

Along with the Canal de Garonne, it forms the Canal des Deux Mers, which joins the Atlantic near Bordeaux to the Mediterranean. Running from the city of Toulouse down to the Mediterranean port of Sète ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's summertime in southern France and we're cycling the towpath of a canal built more than a century before the bicycle was even ...

France is felling thousands of tress shading the banks of its Canal du Midi, a Unesco World Heritage site, due to a canker stain plague decimating plants along the 17th century marvel of engineering.