Canal du Midi
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Location
Midi-Pyrenees

Country
France

Year of Research
1996

Culture
    It has an area of 360-km.It is of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through 328 structures (locks, aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, etc.).It is one of the most remarkable feats of civil engineering in modern times.
    constructed from 1667 to 1694, it coated the way for the Industrial Revolution.
    The care that its creator, Pierre-Paul Riquet, took in the design and the way it blends with its surroundings turned a technical achievement into a work of art.
    It is in view that the site is of salient universal value being one of the biggest engineering achievements of the Modern Age.It is providing the model for the flowering of technology that guide directly to the Industrial Revolution and the modern technological age.
    Additionally, it combines with its technological innovation a concern for high aesthetic architectural and landscape design that has few parallels.
    The Committee endorsed the inscription of this property as the Canal du Midi clearly is an exceptional example of a designed landscape.





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