Earlier this year (way back before Covid times), we were making plans for our next Camino to begin toward the end of September. We had contemplated starting in Perpignan and making our way to Llanca in order to follow in the footsteps of peregrina2000 by joining the Cami St. Jaume at that point. Having done some further research, I was unable to find a Camino route joing Perpignan with Llanca. So, instead we made plans to begin in Llanca and I made bookings for our first few nights along that route.
There is a route from Perpignan to Llançà, but I think it has not been waymarked yet on the French side. Including because of all the possible variants.
Pilgrim lodging is very difficult on the French side, except for Perpignan itself where there is an excellent
Refugio. But tourist accommodation is not so hard if you can manage the prices.
Anyway, to start out you should DIY a route, with the help of a smartphone map, on as many small country roads or farming tracks as possible towards Saint-Cyprien ; then I'd suggest through Latour Bas-Elne then a track leading eventually to the bridge which is the only place you can cross the river there (there's a tarmac variant of course).
From there to Argelès ; then go coastal via Collioure and Port-Vendres to Banyuls. Then drink some of the local wine, warning it's very strong, and I'd recommend the white over the red.
There's a coastal trail to Cerbère. Cross the border to Port-Bou. And there's a waymarked trail from there through Colera to Llançà.
Unfortunately, I have since then had to cancel said bookings as I am so uncertain of walking there at this time. I fear that many of the small communities along the way will not have facilities open for pilgrims and I have noted that this is indeed the case once one reaches Montserrat and the small places one goes through after that on the way to Huesca.
The best resources from Manresa onwards on the
Camí San Jaume and the
Camí Catalan are actually those of the
Ignaciano Way, which is identical for the
Catalan via Lleida until Logroño ; and as far as the
Catalan via Huesca is concerned, as far as Tàrrega.
Here :
https://caminoignaciano.org/en/lodging/
There are more lodging opportunities than people think, though there are a few long stretches with not much at all -- but until you reach Manresa, there will be little indeed in the way of Pilgrim lodging.
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I was unlucky at first at Manresa as the main tourist office was closed, the youth hostel was unaffordable for me (I was penniless that day), the local priest was away on some teaching/learning trip (he told me by phone that he would have put me up), and
nobody in Montserrat was competent enough to tell me about the Ignaciano pilgrim hostel at the Sanctuary (but instead these people gave me a crazy runaround), and I was completely unaware of the existence of the above web resource -- but finally the Camino did provide, in the form of a local former pilgrim who offered me some food (a kebab) and room on the floor to sleep on. And great pilgrim conversation. Yay !!