Canal du Midi de Carcassonne
UNESCO-listed waterway rerouted into town in 1810, with a lock and port beside the railway station.
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This guide to the Canal du Midi in Carcassonne starts around sixteen seventy, with the engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet, a small hill in his way, and a request he put to the town's consuls. It follows the waterway out along the Fresquel valley to a lonely wharf called Port de Foucaud, and the carts that rolled between it and the town. Best heard beside the lock opposite the railway station.
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