Download or read book Canal du Midi A World Heritage Site written by Jérôme Sabatier and published by Jérôme Sabatier. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel guide updated in February 2019. The Canal du Midi, completed during the reign of Louis XIV, is extraordinary in its scope, representing one of the major works of civil engineering. Its conception, the ingenuity required by Pierre Paul Riquet to feed water to the canal and the creation of dozens of water features along its route, all testify to its exceptional technological innovation. It opened a safe and fast navigable link between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, thus providing commercial prosperity to the regions it crossed in the three centuries of its use. At a length of 240 kilometers, the Canal du Midi was the largest construction site of its time and today remains the oldest canal in Europe still in operation. Beyond the technical challenges overcome by Pierre Paul Riquet, it is the aesthetics of his architecture and the landscapes created that make the Canal du Midi so unique. Here you’ll find all the information necessary to prepare your trip and your stay along the Canal du Midi in order to discover this exceptional site of indisputable universal value. You will find the following under the sections for the site : the reasons for its selection for the World Heritage list, the history of the site, many practical informations (Tourist Offices, suggested tours, museums, events, transports), and a selection of accommodation and restaurants. Prices and opening hours shown are for 2019. You'll also find tips (transport, pricing, activities ... ), anecdotes and all the possibilities for family-friendly visits to encourage children and families in their discovery. Let us guide you...
Download or read book Canal Du Midi a World Heritage Site written by Jérôme Sabatier and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel guide updated in July 2016.The Canal du Midi, completed during the reign of Louis XIV, is extraordinary in its scope, representing one of the major works of civil engineering. Its conception, the ingenuity required by Pierre Paul Riquet to feed water to the canal and the creation of dozens of water features along its route, all testify to its exceptional technological innovation. It opened a safe and fast navigable link between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, thus providing commercial prosperity to the regions it crossed in the three centuries of its use.At a length of 240 kilometers, the Canal du Midi was the largest construction site of its time and today remains the oldest canal in Europe still in operation. Beyond the technical challenges overcome by Pierre Paul Riquet, it is the aesthetics of his architecture and the landscapes created that make the Canal du Midi so unique.Here you'll find all the information necessary to prepare your trip and your stay along the Canal du Midi in order to discover this exceptional site of indisputable universal value. You will find the following under the sections for the site : the reasons for its selection for the World Heritage list, the history of the site, many practical informations (Tourist Offices, suggested tours, museums, events, transports), and a selection of accommodation and restaurants. Prices and opening hours shown are for 2016.You'll also find tips (transport, pricing, activities ... ), anecdotes and all the possibilities for family-friendly visits to encourage children and families in their discovery.Let us guide you...
Download or read book Canal du Midi written by Andrea Hoffmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book The complete guide to navigate on the Canal du Midi written by The complete guide Editions and published by Éditions Le guide indispensable. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canal du Midi is a marvel of French engineering and a jewel of the country's cultural heritage. This waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean,crossing Southern France was built in the 17th century under the direction of Pierre-Paul Riquet.Today, the canal is a major tourist attraction and has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996. The canal is dotted with many works of art, such as locks, bridges, aqueducts, and tunnels, which bear witness to Riquet's ingenuity and that of his collaborators.The Canal du Midi is an example of French creativity and ingenuity, as well as a symbol of France's elegance and beauty it is associated with French history and culture, particularly with the Renaissance and the era of great builders and visionaries.In this complete guide, we present all the options for navigating the Canal du Midi. We also offer routes based on their different levels of difficulty, provide you with maps, and explain how to navigate the locks with illustrations. This is an essential comprehensive guide if you plan to rent a license-free boat for a cruise on the Canal du Midi.
Download or read book The Canal Du Midi Waterway written by René Gast and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canal Du MIDI 150 Miles in 360 written by Melkan Bassil and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books are not dead, technology is not a crime... Canal du Midi, 150mi in 360 is a tourism & travel photography book about the work of Pierre Paul Riquet to create a canal to join the Atlantic ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. Travelling across South of France, the 150mi of the canal operating since 1681 are listed as a World Heritage Sites. Created by Melkan Bassil, this book is the first transmedia project ever produced on the subject. The publication includes 172 pages in full color featuring images, informative and narrative texts, with amazing panoramas and Interactive Virtual Tours accessible through a QR code. A unique presentation mixing the traditional book experience with enriched interactive contents; for all ages! More info: www.canaldumidi360.com Thank you!
Download or read book Canal Du Midi written by Andrew Smyth and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the heart of Languedoc, hidden in a tunnel of plane trees, the glorious Canal du Midi meanders through the south west of France, as though insulated from the world outside. In its time, the Canal was one of the most ambitious civil engineering works ever undertaken and the pride of seventeenth-century France. It achieved a dream of centuries: a link between the flat expanses of the Gironde estuary on the Atlantic coast, and the city of Sète on the blue waters of the Mediterranean. Now by-passed by modern trade, the Canal offers a pastoral idyll, barely changed in more than three hundred years. This book will appeal to anyone interested in boats, canals, or travel in general. It offers a revealing introduction to one of France's oldest waterways and can be used as a guide, pilot book and travel story. It is indispensable for anyone thinking of visiting or using the Canal, or simply wanting to learn more of this extraordinary passage.
Download or read book Canal of the Sun King written by Les E Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canal of the Sun King is a fictional portrayal of the design and construction of the Canal du Midi in 17th Century France. Based on historical records, the novel tells the saga of the men and women who, during the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, achieved what was arguably the greatest human endeavor of the 17th century. It was an achievement, deemed impossible by many, that is today recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. At the center of the story is Pierre-Paul Riquet, an ambitious entrepreneur who earned the Sun King's sanction and assembled the perfect blend of skills and ingenuity in the perfect culture at the perfect time in history to enable the impossible.
Download or read book Impossible Engineering written by Chandra Mukerji and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea. The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence, depending on peasant women and artisans--unrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineering--who came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors. Ironically, while Louis XIV and his treasury minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome, the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods. Still, the result was politically potent. As Mukerji shows, the project took land and power from local nobles, using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elites. Impossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenth-century France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature.
Download or read book The Canal Du Midi written by Bernd-Wilfried Kiessler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-09-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy guidebook packed with all the information you need to make the most of a cruise down one of France's most popular and beautiful canals.
Download or read book Cycling the Canal du Midi written by Declan Lyons and published by Cicerone Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook describes a 240km cycle ride along the length of the Canal du Midi in southern France. Starting at Toulouse in the Haute Garonne and finishing at Sète on the Mediterranean Coast, the route is divided into five stages of about 50km. It is a flat, car-free and picturesque route mainly on the towpath, and is suitable for all abilities. The guide is written for those who want to explore the canal and visit attractions along the way. There are lots of optional detours to sites of interest near the canal, as well as six longer excursions including fortified Carcassone, Roman Narbonne, Vendres lagoon and the Portiragnes marshes. Detailed route descriptions are crammed with additional information about points of interest passed, and 1:200,000 scale maps clearly show the route for each stage of the way. Begun in 1666 the Canal du Midi is one of the world's most picturesque waterways and a World Heritage Site. This is 'La France Profonde', a region rich in history and culture, as seen in the grand homes and chateaux that grace the water's edge, and the fascinating Cathar strongholds of Carcassone, Lastours and Minerve.
Download or read book Cycling the Canal du Midi written by Declan Lyons and published by Cicerone Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to cycling the Canal du Midi in the Languedoc, France. A UNESCO World Heritage Site the canal meanders through lush countryside rich in history and offers flat, car-free paths and excursions to the nearby hills. Ideal for anyone planning a cycling holiday, locals wanting to explore or canal travellers needing to stretch their legs.
Download or read book France s World Heritage Sites written by Jérôme Sabatier and published by Jérôme Sabatier. This book was released on with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Travel guide updated in May 2019.
Visit France differently! Thanks to "France's World Heritage Sites" travel guide, discover the most beautiful French cities, monuments and landscapes classified as World Heritage sites by UNESCO : Paris, Mont Saint Michel, the Palace of Versailles, Lyon, the medieval city of Carcassonne, Bordeaux, Strasbourg...
Find all the information necessary to prepare your trip and your stay in France in order to discover these exceptional sites of indisputable universal value : suggested itinerary for visiting, the history of each site and monument, touristic information, tips, the museums, an events calendar, practical information on transport, and a selection of accommodation and restaurants. Informations, prices and opening hours shown are for 2019.
But most importantly, this “France's World Heritage Sites” travel guide also offers a suggested itinerary for visiting each site and monument. You'll also find tips (transport, pricing, activities ... ), anecdotes and all the possibilities for family-friendly visits to encourage children and families in their discovery.
Enjoy reading and especially, … bon voyage !
Download or read book Floating Through France written by Barbara J. Euser and published by Travelers' Tales Guides. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing a rural side of France, the essays in this collection explore the areas surrounding the picturesque Canal du Midi. Featuring contributions from Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Larry Habegger, Joanna Biggar, and others, "Floating Through France" is perfect for those traveling to France or those who just want to feel like they're there.
Download or read book Canal Cruising in the South of France written by Pixie Haughwout and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Sea to Sea written by Lionel Thomas Caswell Rolt and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All You Need to Know about the Canal Du Midi written by Philippe Calas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
