Pont-canal de la Cesse
The Cesse Aqueduct
Coordinates	43°16′48″N 2°54′55″E / 43.28000°N 2.91528°E / 43.28000; 2.91528
Carries	Canal du Midi
Crosses	River Cesse
Locale	Mirepeisset
Characteristics
Trough construction	Masonry
Pier construction	Masonry
Towpaths	Both
Longest span	18.3 metres (60 ft)
No. of spans	3
History
Opened	1690
Location

Cesse Aqueduct (French: Pont-Canal de la Cesse) is one of several aqueducts, or water bridge, created for the Canal du Midi. Originally, the canal crossed the Cesse on the level. Pierre-Paul Riquet, the original architect of the canal, had placed a curved dam 205 metres (673 ft) long and 9.10 metres (29.9 ft) high across the Cesse in order to collect water to make the crossing possible; the aqueduct replaced this dam.

The Cesse Aqueduct was designed in 1686 by Marshal Sebastien Vauban and completed in 1690 by Antoine Niquet. Master mason was John Gaudot.^[1] It has three spans, the middle being 18.3 metres (60 ft) and the side being 14.6 metres (48 ft) each. It is located in Mirepeisset, Aude (11), Languedoc-Roussillon, France, about one mile from the port town of Le Somail. ^{[2] [3]}

In 1967, a scene from "Le Petit Baigneur" directed by Robert Dhéry, with Louis de Funès, was filmed a Cesse Aqueduct.

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  Pont-Canal de la Cesse
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  The hotel barge Anjodi crossing the Cesse River on the Canal du Midi.
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  Side view of Anjodi crossing the Cesse. Here, you can see the Cesse River running underneath the Canal du Midi.

• Locks on the Canal du Midi

• Eastern Approach