The Canal du Midi

The Canal du Midi is the realisation of an almost Utopian project, to link the Mediterranean to Toulouse and to the Atlantic by a navigable route. It is the work of a man, Pierre Paul Riquet, who applied all his strength and all his means to the accomplishment of this grand design. The ingenuity of the solutions that this “Moses of the Languedoc” brought to bear on the inumerable technical problems of this pharaonic work, was worth all the praises of Vauban and fully justified the recent listing of the Canal du Midi in the world heritage of man.