Canal du Midi
Enjoyment and precious buildings.
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Arrival in Toulouse
Individual arrival to Toulouse in the late afternoon. Toulouse is also called the "ville rose" because of the reddish stone of many buildings. One sight is the Basilica St-Sernin de Toulouse, a culinary speciality is the duck breast with green beans.
Many buildings are built with red bricks in Toulouse, therefore this city is also named “ville rose”. A wonderful place of interest is the basilica St. Sernin de Toulouse. A culinary delicacy is the duck breast with green beans.
You cycle to water reservoir St. Férról. The clear water and sandy beaches as well as paddleboats, canoes and catamarans are inviting you to a wonderful day at the beach.
Carcassonne free disposal or a round trip to Montolieu. There are 15 antique stores with over 200.000 books in the worth seeing city of book “Montagnes Noires”. The former royal textile manufacturing was declared to a National Monument in 2004.
In the lower city of Carcassonne bastion Saint Louis is located and in the house of memories you learn a lot about the life of Catharist people. Welcome to Olonzac, you will enjoy it.
Welcome to Homps. This picturesque village on the Canal du Midi has the third largest port on the canal. Destination today is Narbonne with the cathedral Saint Just et Saint Pasteur.
You drive to Capestang and on to Béziers. The city is the centre of winegrowing und birth place of Paul Riquet, the builder of Canal du Midi.
You start your tour of today in the port and fishermen-town Sète, where the Canal du Midi flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The town is surrounded by water and its surname is “Venice des Languedoc“. The reasons for this surname are beneath the Canal du Midi countless additional waterways, which cross the town. Your cycling alongside the Canal du Midi leads you past masterpieces of engineering like the lock of Agde. It is the only round lock of the Canal du Midi and was built with volcanic rock. The basic measurements of the lock are 29.90 metres diameter and 5.20 metres depth. Cap d´Agde at the Mediterranean Sea is your destination today. The biggest European marina is part of the French town Agde and a paradise for water sportsmen like divers, surfers or sailors. But people, who just want to bath and to rest at the beach, get their money‘s worth too.
The "modern" Sète was built in the middle of the 17th century by Paul Riquet so that his Canal du Midi would have a port on the Mediterranean. There were Romans here, naming this Mons Setius some 17 centuries earlier, and pirates were ensconsced on Mont Saint-Clair in the 16th century. But it was Riquet's new "Port-Saint-Louis-du-Cap-de-Cette" that became the seaside and canal town of today.
Departure or extension
Tour character
You will cycle on partly uneven, with roots interspersed sand and pebble paths, partly asphalted, as well as on little frequented side roads.
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Season 1 25.03.2023 - 31.03.2023 24.09.2023 - 07.10.2023 Arrival: Saturday | Season 2 01.04.2023 - 16.06.2023 03.09.2023 - 23.09.2023 Arrival: Saturday | Season 3 17.06.2023 - 02.09.2023 Arrival: Saturday | |
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Canal du Midi, 10 days, Cat. A, FR-CMRTS-10D | |||
Base price | 1,549.00 | 1,649.00 | 1,729.00 |
Surcharge single room | 379.00 | 379.00 | 379.00 |
Canal du Midi, 10 days, Cat. B, FR-CMRTS-10X | |||
Base price | 1,199.00 | 1,299.00 | 1,359.00 |
Surcharge single room | 329.00 | 329.00 | 329.00 |
Category A: 3***- and 4****-hotels (french classification) and Cambre d'hotes
Category B: 2**- and 3***-hotels (french classification) and Cambre d'hotes
Season 1 Mar 25, 2023 - Mar 31, 2023 Sep 24, 2023 - Oct 7, 2023 Arrival: Saturday | Season 2 Apr 1, 2023 - Jun 16, 2023 Sep 3, 2023 - Sep 23, 2023 Arrival: Saturday | Season 3 Jun 17, 2023 - Sep 2, 2023 Arrival: Saturday | |
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Toulouse | |||
Double room p. P. cat. A | 85.00 | 85.00 | 85.00 |
Surcharge single room | 45.00 | 45.00 | 45.00 |
Sète | |||
Double room p. P. cat. A | 112.00 | 112.00 | 112.00 |
Surcharge single room | 92.00 | 92.00 | 92.00 |
Toulouse | |||
Double room p. P. cat. B | 77.00 | 77.00 | 77.00 |
Surcharge single room | 42.00 | 42.00 | 42.00 |
Sète | |||
Double room p. P. cat. B | 77.00 | 77.00 | 77.00 |
Surcharge single room | 63.00 | 63.00 | 63.00 |
Included:
- Accommodation in your selected category
- Breakfast
- Welcome briefing (German, English)
- Luggage transfer
- Best developed route
- Detailed travel documents 1x per room (German, English)
- GPS-data available
- Service hotline
Optional extras:
- Bike rental, including rental bike insurance
- Return transfer to Toulouse (minimum 2 persons) every Saturday and Monday, costs EUR 120 per person, extra EUR 30 for your own bike, maximum 6 persons can be transported, reservation is necessary, payable in advance.
Arrival / Parking / Departure:
- Train station Toulouse and Sète
- Airports Toulouse, Montpellier or Béziers/Cap d´Agde
- Cat. A: Parking spaces at the hotel, costs approx. EUR 12 per night, no reservation possible.
Cat. B: Parking house in the near of the hotel, costs approx. EUR 12 per night, no reservation possible
Things to note:
- Tourist tax, if due, is not included in the price!
- Further important information according to the package travel law can be found here!
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