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    GPS tracks for the Voie du Piémont?

    Thanks a lot, this looks exactly like what i'm looking for
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    GPS tracks for the Voie du Piémont?

    I got invited to spend a week at a place my friends rented in Arriège and just realised it's on a branch of the camino. Seeing that I can't continue my camino mozárabe this year as I had planned to, I just figured out I could walk a bit of a different path. The problem is, I cant find the GPS...
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    Granada to Córdoba walking solo? (April 2022)

    I walked this stretch (well, but for the last bit) in 2019 and, frankly, I don't remember anything particularly worrying. The way out of Granada is boring but other than that, it's a fine walk. (Just don't be like me and get lost in the mountains at sundown because you decided to take a...
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    Ancient churches on the San Salvador, Primitivo, and Via de la Plata

    Good spot, @amancio. I've been meaning to visit this little gem for years now. If I may add one place that is sorely lacking on the list, it's the upper part of the San Millán de la Cogolla monastery near Nájera (San Millán de Suso) that dates back to the 6th century. It's a UNESCO World...
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    If you start in Almería.....

    On a light note, may I add that Almeria was an important filming location in the 60s and the 70s. There's a sightseeing route of sorts that points to spots in the city that were used in filming movies like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. And the Tabernas desert just off the camino was used...
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    Best Islamic Architecture on the Camino

    So I'm not the only one to have tried to get in? That said, there's a window in the door so you can get a look at the stucco work in the mihrab from outside.
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    20 ways to cross the Pyrenees on a Camino

    Oh, good to see there's an English version now.
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    Visigothic/Pre-Romanesque architecture for beginners

    Thank you for your kind words, @Kathar1na I believe the prohibition was not specific to Al Andalus but rather to the Umayyad Caliphate in general. And after Al Andalus broke away from the Caliphate, it was ruled by the only Umayyads that escaped the massacre in the East. So it makes sense they...
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    Visigothic/Pre-Romanesque architecture for beginners

    There was a prohibition on building new churches in Muslim Iberia. Moreover, after the Christian revolt in 850 (the so-called Cordoba martyrs affair) the emir ordered the destruction of new (i.e. post-conquest) churches, should any be found, and removal of recent decoration at older churches...
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    Visigothic/Pre-Romanesque architecture for beginners

    We have some extant Merovingian architecture in France, quite a few Lombard structures in Italy, some Saxon churches in Britain, too. Dating early churches is a very uncertain business, though. Case in point, quite a lot of what was considered Visigothic architecture has since been proven to be...
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    Visigothic/Pre-Romanesque architecture for beginners

    Romanesque broadly refers to architecture that evolves after 1000 when most of Western Europe saw a building boom of unprecedented magnitude. The model for the new style was the great abbey in Cluny in Burgundy. Unfortunately it was demolished but one still can see a replica (although on a...
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    Need a map creation app

    Indeed, the task sounds easily accomplished with ViewRanger, assuming @BobM has the GPX track for the route they want to plot. (If you don't, you can plot the route from scratch and drag waypoints to adjust accordingly).
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    Granada to Córdoba in December?

    Hi, Heidi. I walked the route this March and frankly, the couple of climbs I do remember were elsewhere. There's a short but sharpish climb out of the riverbed a few kilometres past Alboloduy and the famous scramble up to Moclin, a day or two after Granada. If you don't have the time to do the...
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    20 ways to cross the Pyrenees on a Camino

    May I also add this link that discusses (in French) the traditional walking routes across the Central Pyrenees between St Gaudens in the Comminges and Barbastro, complete with GPS tracks and assorted practicalities. It covers the way via Vielha, too.
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    The longest, reasonably marked & with infrastructure, Camino?

    Come to think of it, if you are looking for a fun and long camino, you can start from the Russia-Norway border crossing in the Arctic and find your way to Santiago from the shores of the Barents sea. Kirkenes also lies further East than Istanbul. Unfortunately, I don't think you can cross the...
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