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Montferrand, Aude / 0.1 km
Montferrand is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. (...) (mehr)Océan Lock / 1.2 km
Océan Lock is a single chamber lock on the Canal du Midi. The adjacent locks are Mediterranee Lock 5190 metres to the east and Emborrel Lock 4157 metres to the west. Ocean Lock marks the start of the summit section of the canal when travelling west to east (...) (mehr)Bassin de Naurouze / 1.4 km
The Bassin de Naurouze is an octagonal holding tank, created during the building of the Canal du Midi as designed and built by Pierre-Paul Riquet. It was abandoned a few years after construction of the canal because of its recurrent silting problems (...) (mehr)Riquet Obelisk / 1.5 km
The Riquet Obelisk is dedicated to the creator of the Canal du Midi, Pierre-Paul Riquet. In 1827, the heirs of Riquet built the monument. The obelisk has a dedication: "To Pierre-Paul Riquet, Baron Bonrepos, author of the Two Seas Canal in Languedoc" (...) (mehr)Water features on the Canal du Midi / 1.7 km
The balancing of incoming and outgoing water allows the Canal du Midi to operate as it does. Each time a lock operates, large quantities of water are either required to fill it or dump from it into the lower level pound (...) (mehr)powered by Geonames.org and Wikipedia
