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The way of Santiago from Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges through Val d'Aran is now marked. There's a website with gps track and useful information about this way. It goes until Berbegal where it joins the Catalan way.
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From Lourdes, south through Pyrenees
Option 1 . Val d'Azun. Arrens-Marsous and Port de Peyre-Saint-Martin. Sallent de Gállego
Option 2 . Gavarnie. Port de Boucharo
The Brèche de Roland is a way through high pass going on a glacier (small but sometimes difficult to pass through).
For Via Garona, I mention but you might already know it :
- On ACIR website, Via Garona with accomodation information, stages...
- Also information on the website IGNrando
- And some images on this way on Youtube
I walked this way. Yes the views after Bagneres when you are after Monné mountain are one of the most beautiful in Pyrenees with the Pic du Midi just in front of you.
The interest of this way is also the Cotdoussan church. If you have the opportunity to visit the church, the retable is a marvel...
In addition, if you look affordable accommodation on this way, there are options of stage like this :
Muret : through a famous platform for renting rooms 21€
Carbonne : small hotel 35€
Rieux-Volvestre : gite 16€
Martres-Tolosane : camping 15€
Saint-Martory : gite 15€
Saint-Gaudens : youth hostel...
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It's an historical way and there are testimonies of pilgrims using it during 7 centuries.
In the XII century, the Santiago cathedral held a place (La Salvetat Saint Jacques) along the Garonne to offer hospitality and the geographer Idrisi described this way in the part about the way to...
I highly recommend the part of the north coast of Galicia between Neda and Ribadeo. That's simply spectacular. I've done it in June 2014 coming back from Santiago.
There are many options to walk along the coast. You will find mine in...
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If interested, I walked in 2012 from Vezelay to Cluny and then to Le Puy. I used parts of the way to Assisi, sometimes GR, going down I crossed several ways to Le Puy as Lyon-Le Puy or Geneve-Le Puy.
You will find informations about accommodation, daily route on my blog ...
In 2012, I walked from Aachen to Santiago using sometimes pilgrims highways and sometimes off-the-beaten-track ones. Wonderful experience !
I you need information (accommodation, stages, way...) about theses sections :
Via Mosana (Aachen - Liège - Namur)
GR653 (Namur - Reims - Vézelay)...
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