Chemin de Compostela - Pinet à St Thibéry sur Lo Camin Romieu
A walk along part of one of the ancient routes of pilgrimage to Compostela - our lunchtime "étape", with a glass of "Picpoul" ...........................Perhaps the most famous routes through France are the Chemin du Puy / Via Podiensis and the Chemin de Vézelay / Via Lemovicensis which commence at Le Puy and Vézelay respectively. The Chemin du Puy / Via Podiensis is a continuation of the Oberstrasse (the high road) way which crosses central Europe. Many pilgrims come from Poland, Hungary, Germany, Austria and Switzerland via the Oberstrasse way to the shrine of the black madonna at Le Puy. Thus the Chemin du Puy / Via Podiensis is the busiest (and consequently the most developed) of all the routes which cross France. The countryside through which the Chemin du Puy / Via Podiensis passes is exceptionally varied, from the spent volcanoes of the Velay, through the immense wild plateaus of the Aubrac, then to the valleys of the Lot, the Quercy and on to Gascony.............
| Région: | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| Département: | Hérault |
| Commune: | Florensac |
| Photographer: | Malcolm Reynard - personal website |
