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Toulouse is known as La Ville Rose, the pink city, due to the warming pink bricks used in many of its buildings.

This 360-km network of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through 328 structures (locks, aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, etc.) is one of the most remarkable feats of civil ...

Incredible £9m road that's one of the most photographed in Europe [LATEST] The tourist site canal-du-midi.com says: "By bike is a great way to experience this exceptional waterway.

The Canal du Midi, itself a UNESCO World Heritage site built under the reign of Louis XIV in the 1600s, is the most famous and perhaps easiest route to explore, running from Toulouse to Marseillan ...

We returned the next year, when I somehow convinced my otherwise rational wife to cycle 170 kilometres along the Canal du Midi, which connects Toulouse to the Mediterranean.

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France Europe's answer to Suez Canal is incredible 223-mile £18m waterway Construction of the remarkable Canal Du Midi took a staggering 14 years to complete, and required around 12,000 workers.

The Canal du Midi includes 91 locks, a series of tunnels, and the world’s first canal bridge, the Pont-Canal de Répudre. Construction began in 1666 and required the labor of approximately ...

And while the capital has Canal Saint-Martin, Toulouse has Canal du Midi — while the former is just shy of three miles in length, the latter is part of a nearly 223-mile waterway linking the ...