The canals of Paris: A heritage revealed

Jewels in the crown of France’s heritage, the Parisian canals define the capital in the same way as the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. These exceptional works are bursting with rare and often overlooked historical and technological treasures. Why is such a network essential to the French capital? What inventions and feats of engineering had to be implemented to build such works of art and control the water in order to distribute it better? The 3 main canals, the Canal St Martin, the Canal St Denis and the Canal de L'Ourcq, run through the capital under the open sky or sometimes secretly.