Tunnel du Rove

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Rove Tunnel

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s

Between 1911 and 1916, the Rove Tunnel was built to link the Marseille Harbor to the Rhone River. But it wasn’t until 1926, after twenty years of work and a World War, that the tunnel was finally... »

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