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The フランス語:Canal du Midi ((オック語:Canal de las Doas Mars), meaning ''canal of the two seas'') is a long canal in Southern France ((フランス語:le Midi)). It was originally named the ''Canal royal en Languedoc'' (Royal Canal in Languedoc) but the French revolutionaries renamed it to ''Canal du Midi'' in 1789. It was considered at the time to be one of the greatest construction works of the 17th century.〔Ultimately the project cost from 17 to 18 million livres which at the time made it the second largest construction in the country after Versailles.〕 The canal connects the Garonne River to the フランス語:Étang de Thau on the Mediterranean and along with the long Canal de Garonne forms the Canal des Deux Mers joining the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. The canal runs from the city of Toulouse down to the Étang de Thau near the Mediterranean. Strictly speaking, the Canal du Midi means that part initially built from Toulouse to the Mediterranean — the Deux-Mers canal project aimed to link together several sections of navigable waterways to join the Mediterranean and the Atlantic: first the Canal du Midi, then the Garonne which was more or less navigable between Toulouse and Bordeaux, then the Garonne Lateral Canal built later, and finally the Gironde estuary after Bordeaux. It was the wheat trade that motivated the construction of the canal. Colbert authorized the commencement of work by a royal edict of October 1666. Under the supervision of Pierre-Paul Riquet the construction took from 1666 to 1681 during the reign of Louis XIV. The Canal du Midi is one of the oldest canals of Europe still in operation (the prototype being the Briare Canal). The challenges in these works are closely related to the challenges of river transport in modern times. The key challenge, raised by Pierre-Paul Riquet, was to convey water from the Montagne Noire (Black Mountains) to the Seuil de Naurouze, the highest point of the canal. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.〔(The canal on the UNESCO world heritage site )〕 ==Introduction== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canal du Midi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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