Visit an area through its rivers offers a unique perspective on the landscapes. Ten river walks not to be missed in Europe.
1 The Venice Lagoon
It is well known, discover the city of the Doges in terms of its channels is the most mesmerizing way to soak up the atmosphere of Venice. Real fragmentation of small islands and archipelagos - 118 in total - in the middle of a lagoon of 550 square kilometers, Venice seems to have been placed on the waters of the Adriatic basin spacious with refined god ... and devious. For the maze of 177 channels, but also for its fragile environment, including the largest floods raise concerns the disappearance of Venice under water as an evanescent dream. Navigation is peaceful in the lagoon, where there is little fear that the tidal currents; in the city, you have to be careful to stay inside the posts tagging channels ... and do not forget that the gondolas always come first!
2. Saône in Burgundy
Saône has a slight slope to it, a fairly high speed and length (482 km), making a beautifully navigable reach. But do not consider to artificially speed on this river which calls primarily to linger. Navigable from Corre (Franche-Comté), the Saone to Auxonne is an attractive meandering river and the Vosges; downstream Auxonne she grows and the pace becomes properly epicurean. One does more than go through Saint-Jean-de-Losne, Chalon-sur-Saône and Mâcon: the one stops to feast on snails washed down with wine which we have seen the hillsides scroll earlier, the one connects to a Bresse chicken or Charolais beef, which was terminated by a beauty Chevreton Macon and chocolate marc de Bourgogne ... Finally? Digestive navigation.
3. canal from Nantes to Brest
To the west, just west of France, the political will to connect the Loire Brest harbor dates back to the sixteenth century, but it is a book that finally doubly imperial link to the city of Nantes Ponant Between initiating work by Napoleon and his inauguration by Napoleon III, the channel will be more than half a century in the making. Taming eight streams and allowing ships to cross a vertical drop of 555 meters by 236 locks, the waterway that brought prosperity fertilizer and slate allows carriers today to discover inside the Morbihan and Finistere over water, kayak or bicycle.
The towpath, across the tarmac third finistérien, offers cyclists a feasible way on all the 360 km evolving amid valleys Breton, with a picturesque lake deserved break Guerledan born hydroelectric dam that cut the channel two in 1928.
4 The Camargue
To become master of the Camargue and its wetlands, man has used two perennial solutions that have forged the identity of the Rhone delta: horses, and canals. The first to cross this moving world where water, earth and sand dancing together for 10 000 years; the latter made these winding waterways incursions of the sea without breaking the wild beauty, and punctuated with splendid structures such as the old lock of Bourgidou, Aigues-Mortes, or drawbridge of Grau the king. Saline, rice fields, bulls, flamingos and many other species of migratory birds draw a landscape midway between western and around the world, that we discover between two moorings in adorable ports fishing.
5 The Canal du Midi
Two suns are reflected on the waters of most famous French channel, that of Languedoc and Midi - as its name suggests - and that of the king who decreed the ambitious project, Louis XIV. The 360 km waterway linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from Toulouse to Sète, are a real coup for the engineer, Pierre-Paul Riquet; Malpas tunnel that pierced to get the "Two Seas Canal" was a world first, the staircase of eight locks that he imagined to Fonserannes, a technical feat without further precedent. The entire book, interspersed with canal bridges and aqueducts, listed since 1996 at the Unesco, but these are the 80% foreign tourists traveling each year its reach and its beautiful avenues of plane showing the special place it holds in the world of heritage and river tourism.
6 THE SHANNON (IRELAND)
The Shannon, the longest river in the British Isles, divides its course 360 km Irish territory between East and West, as it brings together the Irish, who love and sing. In short, a backbone river, the importance and seaworthiness was noted in antiquity by Ptolemy. It must be said that its low altitude - 76 meters on the journey - and its powerful flow facilitated the loan and subsequently need some accommodations for a river of this size, but also of this magnitude. Because what makes the majesty of the Shannon, in addition to its shores dotted with small, well-protected harbors, it is the loughs - lakes, six in total - are strung along its progression towards the Atlantic, like beads on a necklace.
7 CHANNEL BURGUNDY
The Canal of Burgundy fate and charm of these masterpieces of French superannuated civil engineering work: ordered by a king - Louis XV - abandoned during the Revolution, taken under Napoleon then barely completed and beginning to be exploited already exceeded by the railway. In the end, there is a walk. But what a ride! Some 242 miles of navigation between the Seine and the Saone, along shores where the bucolic atmosphere household delicately the appearance of medieval buildings, including the fortress of Châteauneuf, and beautiful villages of Côte-d'Or. It is not to be enjoyed by train to admire the scenery; we rejoice to pass slowly through a tunnel, the arch of Pouilly-en-Auxois, 3333 meters long, and is traversed by water walk.
Source: lonelyplanet.fr
1 The Venice Lagoon
It is well known, discover the city of the Doges in terms of its channels is the most mesmerizing way to soak up the atmosphere of Venice. Real fragmentation of small islands and archipelagos - 118 in total - in the middle of a lagoon of 550 square kilometers, Venice seems to have been placed on the waters of the Adriatic basin spacious with refined god ... and devious. For the maze of 177 channels, but also for its fragile environment, including the largest floods raise concerns the disappearance of Venice under water as an evanescent dream. Navigation is peaceful in the lagoon, where there is little fear that the tidal currents; in the city, you have to be careful to stay inside the posts tagging channels ... and do not forget that the gondolas always come first!
2. Saône in Burgundy
Saône has a slight slope to it, a fairly high speed and length (482 km), making a beautifully navigable reach. But do not consider to artificially speed on this river which calls primarily to linger. Navigable from Corre (Franche-Comté), the Saone to Auxonne is an attractive meandering river and the Vosges; downstream Auxonne she grows and the pace becomes properly epicurean. One does more than go through Saint-Jean-de-Losne, Chalon-sur-Saône and Mâcon: the one stops to feast on snails washed down with wine which we have seen the hillsides scroll earlier, the one connects to a Bresse chicken or Charolais beef, which was terminated by a beauty Chevreton Macon and chocolate marc de Bourgogne ... Finally? Digestive navigation.
3. canal from Nantes to Brest
To the west, just west of France, the political will to connect the Loire Brest harbor dates back to the sixteenth century, but it is a book that finally doubly imperial link to the city of Nantes Ponant Between initiating work by Napoleon and his inauguration by Napoleon III, the channel will be more than half a century in the making. Taming eight streams and allowing ships to cross a vertical drop of 555 meters by 236 locks, the waterway that brought prosperity fertilizer and slate allows carriers today to discover inside the Morbihan and Finistere over water, kayak or bicycle.
The towpath, across the tarmac third finistérien, offers cyclists a feasible way on all the 360 km evolving amid valleys Breton, with a picturesque lake deserved break Guerledan born hydroelectric dam that cut the channel two in 1928.
4 The Camargue
To become master of the Camargue and its wetlands, man has used two perennial solutions that have forged the identity of the Rhone delta: horses, and canals. The first to cross this moving world where water, earth and sand dancing together for 10 000 years; the latter made these winding waterways incursions of the sea without breaking the wild beauty, and punctuated with splendid structures such as the old lock of Bourgidou, Aigues-Mortes, or drawbridge of Grau the king. Saline, rice fields, bulls, flamingos and many other species of migratory birds draw a landscape midway between western and around the world, that we discover between two moorings in adorable ports fishing.
5 The Canal du Midi
Two suns are reflected on the waters of most famous French channel, that of Languedoc and Midi - as its name suggests - and that of the king who decreed the ambitious project, Louis XIV. The 360 km waterway linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from Toulouse to Sète, are a real coup for the engineer, Pierre-Paul Riquet; Malpas tunnel that pierced to get the "Two Seas Canal" was a world first, the staircase of eight locks that he imagined to Fonserannes, a technical feat without further precedent. The entire book, interspersed with canal bridges and aqueducts, listed since 1996 at the Unesco, but these are the 80% foreign tourists traveling each year its reach and its beautiful avenues of plane showing the special place it holds in the world of heritage and river tourism.
6 THE SHANNON (IRELAND)
The Shannon, the longest river in the British Isles, divides its course 360 km Irish territory between East and West, as it brings together the Irish, who love and sing. In short, a backbone river, the importance and seaworthiness was noted in antiquity by Ptolemy. It must be said that its low altitude - 76 meters on the journey - and its powerful flow facilitated the loan and subsequently need some accommodations for a river of this size, but also of this magnitude. Because what makes the majesty of the Shannon, in addition to its shores dotted with small, well-protected harbors, it is the loughs - lakes, six in total - are strung along its progression towards the Atlantic, like beads on a necklace.
7 CHANNEL BURGUNDY
The Canal of Burgundy fate and charm of these masterpieces of French superannuated civil engineering work: ordered by a king - Louis XV - abandoned during the Revolution, taken under Napoleon then barely completed and beginning to be exploited already exceeded by the railway. In the end, there is a walk. But what a ride! Some 242 miles of navigation between the Seine and the Saone, along shores where the bucolic atmosphere household delicately the appearance of medieval buildings, including the fortress of Châteauneuf, and beautiful villages of Côte-d'Or. It is not to be enjoyed by train to admire the scenery; we rejoice to pass slowly through a tunnel, the arch of Pouilly-en-Auxois, 3333 meters long, and is traversed by water walk.
Source: lonelyplanet.fr
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