Cruising Guides - France: Canal Du Midi

Canal du Midi : The Ultimate Guide

This is a must-have compact travel guide to the Canal du Midi, a picturesque waterway in Southern France, popular for boating trips and holidays. The Canal du Midi is recognised as one of the most beautiful and popular waterways in Europe. It is an Unesco world heritage site and attracts many visitors every year.
It's widely regarded as the perfect boating region for wine tasting, sightseeing at medieval villages and cities, and visiting cafes and restaurants.

This up-to-date, comprehensive travel guide covers all the practical information and sightseeing opportunities boaters need to know about during their holiday on the canal, including:
- Highlights and itinerary for Canal du Midi trips for easy planning
- Insider travel tips for your boating holiday: where to stop off, sightseeing highlights, recommended restaurants to visit along the way
- Essential practical nautical information such as how and where to charter, locks, bridges and berths and so on
- Concise English-French dictionary with the most important vocab
- Fantastic photography and useful route maps.

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The Canal du Midi - A Cruiser's Guide

The Canal du Midi is probably the most popular canal in France. Linking the Bay of Biscay with the Mediterranean, it is not only renowned for its beauty and picturesque sights, it also performs the invaluable service of saving boaters the long (and arduous) trip around Portugal and Spain to reach the Med.

This handy-sized guidebook has all the information boaters need to navigate the canal, and is packed with cruising and background information about each stage. There are enticing colour photos and distance maps of each section, showing locks, bridges and yacht havens.

This book will accompany sailors and motorboaters all the way, enabling them to make the most of their journey down one of the most famous canals in the world.

The chapters cover the following: Technical data on the waterways - Canal d'Arles a Fos-sur-Mer - Petit Rhone - Canal du Rhone a Sete - Lez - Etang de Thau - Canal du Midi - Herault - Canal de la Robine.

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Reise durch Canal du Midi

The Canal du Midi, which is almost 350 years old and around 240 kilometers long, is a technical masterpiece of engineering, which brought it onto the Unesco World Heritage List in 1996.
The canal connects the charming port town of Sète on the Mediterranean with Toulouse, the "pink city", crossing the picturesque hilly landscape of the southern French regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées and leading through sleepy villages and historically important cities with impressive buildings from many centuries.

Since the transport of goods on the artificial waterway was stopped, the Canal du Midi has become increasingly popular with leisure boaters who cruise along the water in peace and quiet in their motorboats or rented houseboats. Cyclists and long-distance hikers have also discovered the canal for themselves and use the shady towpaths on which horses once pulled the heavy transport barges.

Around 180 images show the gently undulating landscape characterized by vineyards and fields, highlight the most outstanding technical structures on the canal and take a look into the charming villages and towns and behind the thick walls of fortresses, monasteries and cathedrals that have largely survived the ravages of time.

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