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Via Tolosana – One crosses Saint-Gilles, Montpellier, Toulouse, and the pass of Somport

Mar 14, 2020 | Toulouse Road

The Road of Toulouse or Via Tolosana was the most southerly French route, leading from Provence to the Pyrenean pass of the Somport. It began at the ancient Roman necropolis of the Alyscans cemetery and its myriad saintly tombs, just outside the city gates of Arles....

Via Turonensis

Mar 20, 2009 | Tours Road

Video: The Tours Road at Saint Savin An Artsymbol Production Music by Martin A Smith Duration 1:53 Still another cuts through Saint-Martin of Tours, Saint-Hilaire of Poitiers, Saint-Jean-d’Angely, Saint-Eutrope of Saintes and the city of Bordeaux. LSJ...

Via Podensis

Mar 15, 2009 | Puy Road

Another goes through Notre-Dame of Le Puy, Sainte-Foy of Conques and Saint-Pierre of Moissac The Pilgrim’s Guide The Puy Road was one of the four French pilgrimage roads to Santiago de Compostela. In the year 951 the bishop of the Auvergnat town of Le...

The Jacobus and the Camino: Of the names of towns on this road

Oct 2, 2013 | Camino

At some point in the middle of the twelfth century, the authors of the Jacobus, the manuscript devoted to the cult of the Apostle James, set down in writing what had partly been a growing popular tradition and partly the enforced will of royalty and the Church, the...

Via Lemivocensis

Mar 15, 2020 | Limoges Road

Thereupon, on the route that through Saint-Leonard stretches towards Santiago, the most worthy remains of the Blessed Mary Magdalene must first of all be rightly worshipped by the pilgrims. LSJ Video: The Limoges Road near Troyes An Artsymbol Production...