Canal du Midi (Canal des deux seas). Naurouze threshold, sharing the waters of the Ocean...

Canal du Midi (Canal des deux seas). Naurouze threshold, sharing the waters of the Ocean and the Mediterranean. Obelisque erected by the heritiers of Riquet in 1825, on boulders (poudingue of the tertiary era). Legend says that these stones, separated by faults, slowly come closer and that when they touch each other, the end of the world will be near. This assertion is found in a poesy by the troubadour Raimon de Miraval at the beginning of the 13th century, and in a prophetia by Nostradamus in the 16th century. Even today, some superstitious visitors sometimes throw stones into cracks to prevent them from closing! Photo by Patrice Cartier