For nearly 200 years, the plane trees lining the 17th-century Canal du Midi have watched over Europe's oldest, largest and most spectacular manmade waterway. Making a tree-lined avenue of the entire ...

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 ...

The Canal du Midi traverses the Occitanie region and gives cyclists of all skill levels access to parts of France that are rich in lore, yet sometimes passed over by visitors. By William Fleeson The ...

The French are going to fell 42,000 trees along the famous Canal du Midi at a cost of £175million because a killer fungus is devouring them. The picturesque waterway is classified by the United ...

The famous Suez Canal often receives worldwide recognition but Europe's version is no less impressive. The Canal du Midi in the south of France is an extraordinary feat of engineering, history, and ...

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 ...

14:35, Wed, May 7, 2025 Updated: 14:42, Wed, May 7, 2025 TV viewers may have been watching comedy best mates David Baddiel and Hugh Dennis pedal through France's luscious landscape along the famous ...

Lying in our French hotel bedroom, watching TV highlights of last summer's Tour de France, we kidded ourselves we knew how Bradley Wiggins felt. OK, the Tour riders that day covered 200km and climbed ...

The speed limit in kilometres per hour for boats on the canal. It’s a supremely relaxing way to travel: the boats glide past vineyards, and under avenues of greenery created by the branches of plane ...

Dubbed as one of the most 'remarkable feats of civil engineering in modern times', this one-of-a-kind canal links the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Believed to have been built between 1667 and 1681, ...

42,000 plane trees which run along the historic Canal du Midi will have to be chopped down due to the spread of an infectious, incurable fungus. The site has UNESCO status and links the Atlantic ocean ...