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Introduction
Contents
Sample Route
Availability
Reprinted
Cover
Paperback - Laminated
Published
17 Mar 2010
Edition
First
ISBN
9781852845599
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ISBN (10)
1852845597
Size
17.2 x 11.6 x 1.3cm
Weight
240g
Pages
192
Originally Published
18 Feb 2009

Cycling the Canal du Midi

Across southern France from Toulouse to Sète by Declan Lyons

An essential guidebook for anyone cycling the Canal du Midi, southern France. Information is also given on short detours to sights close to the canal, and longer outings into the surrounding countryside. The Canal du Midi meanders through lush countryside rich in history and offers flat, car-free paths, ideal for anyone planning a cycling holiday. More...

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Activities

cycling, cycle touring

Seasons

Suitable all year round. Busier and hot in summer, but with lots going on; ideal temperatures but Read More... higher average rainfall in spring and autumn; quietest in winter, but with Christmas markets and fairs.

Centres

Toulouse, Carcassone, Beziers, Sète

Difficulty

Suitable for all abilities - flat and car-free along the canal with optional slightly hillier Read More... excursions by road if desired. Described in five stages to fit within a week's holiday.

Must See

Historic towns and cities: Ancient Greek Agde, Roman Narbonne, Toulouse, the ‘Rose City’, Read More... Carcassonne’s 12th-century fortified Cité. Real French culture of La France Profonde, including myriad local festivals. Varied countryside with a wide range of animals and plants.
 
 

There are few, if any, guides in English on cycling the Canal du Midi. Several have been published in French, the most popular being Le Canal du Midi à Vélo by Phillipe Calas (Edisud, Aix-en-Provence, 2001). Cicerone also publish two walking guides by Alan Mattingly to the region, which contain useful information – The Cathar Way (Cicerone 2006) and Walks in the Cathar Region (Cicerone 2005).

The following books give background information on the history and culture of the region and of France.

Cathars

The Perfect Heresy – the life and death of the Cathars Stephen O’Shea (Profile Books, 2000)

The Cathars (multiple authors) (In Situ, 2006)

The Yellow Cross – The story of the last Cathars 1290–1329 René Weiss (Penguin, 2000)

Labyrinth Kate Mosse (GP Putman, 2006) A historical novel based in Carcassonne in Cathar times and the present.

Life in the region

Virgile’s Vinyard – a year in the Languedoc wine country Patrick Moon (John Murray Publishers, 2003)

French history

A Concise History of France Roger Price (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 2006)

 
 
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