Ce tout petit village (700 habitants) fût pendant longtemps un port très actif. Construit autour du canal, c'est la viticulture qui fut et reste l'activité principale de Homps. Une cave coopérative situé sur le port vous permettra dde découvrir la production locale avant de s'élancer de nouveau sur le Canal des 2 Mers à vélo.
Custom route
Custom route
22 Marseillette / Homps
This stage is dotted with admirable technical feats, in particular the astonishing hydraulic overflow facility designed for the Canal du Midi at La Redorte by the great 17th-century engineer Vauban. Homps, an historic wine-exporting port, is very lively, with many shops, and a bit of a shock after the sleepy atmosphere along much of the canal. Here you find yourself in the heart of the Minervois area. Close to Homps, Jouarres Lake offers you the possibility of going bathing.
23 The Canal du Midi by bike : Homps / Le Somail
A string of wine-making villages, Argens-Minervois, Roubia, Paraza and Ventenac-en-Minervois, congregate here beside the Canal du Midi, calling for your attention! Le Somail’s port was where the canal’s designer, Pierre-Paul Riquet, calculated that the post barge should stop for the couchée, or sunset, on the third day of its trip from Toulouse. Now, Le Somail is one of the canal’s most attractive stops, a picture-postcard village with its port, chapel, canal-side accommodation and amazing antiquarian bookshop.