Capitainerie du Port du Canal du Midi
Harbour office on a canal basin dug in the early 1800s, still watched over by a working lock.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Capitainerie du Port du Canal du Midi in Carcassonne is about the people who made the canal work: skippers and their families living aboard, horses and donkeys on the towpath, merchants counting handling costs. It asks why, for more than a century, the town's own canal passed it by. Best heard on the quay, facing the basin, with the lock within earshot.
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