The final stage crosses Agde, one of the oldest towns in France, founded by Phocaean Greeks in the 6th century BC, recognisable by its distinctive black basalt buildings, local volcanic stone that gives the town its nickname, the “black pearl of the Mediterranean”.
The canal then skirts Marseillan, a village known for producing Noilly Prat vermouth, before running alongside the Étang de Thau, a large coastal lagoon famous for oyster farming, where the scenery opens wide onto the Mediterranean horizon.
Arriving in Sète, a Mediterranean port nicknamed the “Venice of Languedoc” for its many canals, symbolically closes out the Canal des Deux Mers à Vélo: here, after 490 km from Bordeaux, the canal’s waters finally reach the Mediterranean.
Indicative distance for this stretch.