Welcome to the web-site of AMICALL (Amis du Canal Latéral à la Loire).

Here you will find a mass of useful information for all canal-users, whether pleasure-boaters, fishermen, walkers, cyclists, or simply tourists or local residents.

You can quickly access the subject which interests you by clicking on the appropriate button in the left-hand column.

However, if you have a little more time or if you want to know more about our canal, click on the button “Canal Latéral”. Here you can find details of the whole canal, locality by locality, mooring by mooring, by clicking on each place in turn.

If you are interested in a particular place, click directly on the name to get all sorts of information such as equipment of the moorings, shops, services, tourist spots, etc.

If you want to know the state of the traffic on the canal, find out by clicking on “news” (“avis à la batellerie”.in French)

Are you interested in the history of the canal ? if so, then click on the title “A short history” at the top of the “Canal Latéral” page. The historical information is provided by the organisation DRAC (Direction Régionale de l’Action Culturelle)  and by a renowned specialist in canal history – Charles Berg.

If you have any question, comment, information or suggestion for improving the web-site, click on “Web-master” and leave us a message – we will always reply.

The last button in the left-hand column is “links” (“liens” in French), which accesses sites of interest to our members. You can put yourself on our list of links, but if you do please put us on your own links list.

Once you have got to know our web-site or if we have helped you enjoy our canal to the full, then what about joining our association AMICALL ?  the more the merrier !