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Closer to Rome than Santiago

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Arles is a great little city with a lot of ancient Roman influence. The Roman theater and arena is worth the visit, as is the Barbegal aqueduct. There are remains of a Roman circus (race track). I loved the Roman history museum. The Alyscamps is a large Roman necropolis that I did not visit, but I'm told is quite impressive. Two years ago after a local trek, I rented a car and drove around the area for a week, mostly to look at the Roman ruins and eat my way around southern France. If you will be back in the area and have the time, I highly recommend both.

Also, I attended Mass with a number of pilgrims starting the Camino at the Church of St. Trophime and explored the Romanesque church and associated cloisters -- spectacular. It's designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
 
One other note: I see you start tomorrow, but if you happen to start at St. Trophime and you are able to access the cloister, then you can see a very old reference to the Camino. The northern gallery of the cloister was built in the early- to mid-1100's with carvings on the capitals of the columns. One of them shows Christ encountering the disciples at Emaus, but portrayed as pilgrims on the Way to Santiago de Compostela. The capitals to the left and right of the Compostela column can also be moving for pilgrims, as they speak to humanity, suffering, faith, and redemption with images of Saints Stephen, Paul (who participated in the first deacon's martyrdom before he became an Apostle), and Thomas.
 
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That is the Camino that passes by my home, and the Camino I have used to walk from home to both Santiago and Rome. I'm much closer than that to Rome, being next to the Italian border. The distances are a bit off BTW.

The old route through there actually stretches between Cádiz and Rome ; and parts of the French Piémont Way as well as parts of the Catalan Way are on that route as well.
 
Hello you Tolosana pilgrims! Can I ask what resources you are using for your pilgrimage? I have just started researching, and am finding some very old material. Thanks for any help!
 
The web page gronze.com for accommodations was the most current list I could find. It links to gronze mapping app which has the route, so you can click from the map to the Auberge.
I also used a mapping app called GPX Tracker which works offline, and uploaded a gpx file of the trail. It's good to have more than one, as There are always recent route changes - some still caught me out however.
Since then Ive found the very detailed Organic Maps which also works offline, and map files from the Netherlands website santiago.nl.
All are free resources.
 
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Hello you Tolosana pilgrims! Can I ask what resources you are using for your pilgrimage? I have just started researching, and am finding some very old material. Thanks for any help!
Gronze.com is a great resource. I used Buen Camino for GPS navigation. The Gronze app is also good, but requires a cellular connection. Buen Camino can be used in airplane mode without a cellular connection.
 
The web page gronze.com for accommodations was the most current list I could find. It links to gronze mapping app which has the route, so you can click from the map to the Auberge.
I also used a mapping app called GPX Tracker which works offline, and uploaded a gpx file of the trail. It's good to have more than one, as There are always recent route changes - some still caught me out however.
Since then Ive found the very detailed Organic Maps which also works offline, and map files from the Netherlands website santiago.nl.
All are free resources.
Have you used Hiiker or AllTrails? I used both for the Podiensis, and found them pretty good, not great, but not terrible
 
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Gronze.com is a great resource. I used Buen Camino for GPS navigation. The Gronze app is also good, but requires a cellular connection. Buen Camino can be used in airplane mode without a cellular connection.
In 2023 I started using Buen Camino for the Via Tolosana, but found its route to be more out of date than other apps. However they may have received updates.
 

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