Museum and Garden of the Canal du Midi

Very interesting museum about Canal du Midí

The Reservoir is a little museum located close to the Sant Ferriol Lake, in the South of France. In fact, it is a very interesting museum to learn about the Canal du Midí. Here you can read about the ...

What An Insult to the Memory of Riquet - France's Legenday Canal Builder

The canal du midi was built by Paul Riquet - the IK Brunel of France. But this poor and tiny exhibition - with hardly any artifacts or exhibits - is an insult to the great man's memory It's an insul...

Interesting museum wild gardens

If you like engineering, you will enjoy this museum very much as the canal de Midi is a fantastic piece of engineering. The garden s are very interesting, but it is more a wild park than a garden with...

Do not miss the opportunity of visiting this important Museum.

A must visit place to learn about the extraordinary history of the construction of the Canal du Midi in the 17th century and the incredible vision of the master planner J P Riquet.

Canal Du Midi Castelnaudary to Homps in October 2016

Loved it. Great trip with two couples for one week. We were novices at this however our nominated captain had some boat experience which I believe came in handy. We went through about 50 locks, a g...