lovingkindness
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In April, 2012 Caminka, a medieval enthusiast from Slovenia set off from home for Santiago de Compostela via Venezia. She has now reached Pamplona.
Caminka writes
...I want to start at home and finish in Muxia. And follow a different route, too. Although there is now a waymarked Jakobova pot (Way of st James) across Slovenia, I won't follow it because I prefer following in the steps of one Paolo Santonino, who in 1486-87 travelled two times across Slovenian territory while accompanying his bishop and whose travelling notes and remarks have been preserved to this day. So, from Ljubljana I will go on Passum tulmini, one of the (medieval) routes that connected the middle part of Slovenian territory with Italy - this was the preferred route of Aquileia bishops. From Cividale dei Friuli I will haul S to Aquileia - this is now Cammino Celeste or Iter Aquileiense - then make it over to Venezia on Via Grado-Aquileiense which connect Trieste (and Jakobova pot) with Venezia. From there on I will abandon the most popular route to France which is via Torino and then along Via Domitia. To San Felice del Parano I will be on Via Romea-Leona, then there is a two-day link via Carpi to Parma where I will join Via Francigena till Sarzana. From here along the Ligurian coast runs Via della Costa - which I think is not yet waymarked but there are already good descriptions on the net - although I will skip the first part because I want to walk Cinque Terre's Camino Azzurro. At the French-Italian borfer I will change Via della Costa for Via Aurelia (GR 653A) which is being developped as I write (there is already a preliminary guide available, and maps on the net) until Arles. There I will join one day with Via Tolosana, and from Saint Gilles-du-Gard make may way along the Mediterranean coast to Agde, then skip a little into the interior to Narbonne. Here runs Voie du Piemont Pyreneen but I will join it later, in Mas d'Azil, because I want to see the Cathar castles along Sentier Cathare first. From Mas d'Azil to Arudy is then Voie du Piemont Pyreneen, then I will join Voie d'Osseau until Somport. From here Camino Aragones, but the northern variant via Leyre, to Olatz, where I will hop to GR 220 around Pamplona to join Camino Frances in Huarte and follow it to Pamplona. And here starts perhaps the most abmitious part, Viejo Camino, all the way to Ponferrada where I chose Camino Invierno then Camino Sanabres to end in Santiago. And, of course, the last skip to Fisterra and Muxia. I did some calculations and it came to somewhere about 3300km... Blog
Here is a link to Caminka's excellent blog:
http://camino-medieval.webs.com/apps/blog/
Caminka
Wishing you many Blessings and much Grace as you continue along your Way
Regards
Lovingkindness
Caminka writes
...I want to start at home and finish in Muxia. And follow a different route, too. Although there is now a waymarked Jakobova pot (Way of st James) across Slovenia, I won't follow it because I prefer following in the steps of one Paolo Santonino, who in 1486-87 travelled two times across Slovenian territory while accompanying his bishop and whose travelling notes and remarks have been preserved to this day. So, from Ljubljana I will go on Passum tulmini, one of the (medieval) routes that connected the middle part of Slovenian territory with Italy - this was the preferred route of Aquileia bishops. From Cividale dei Friuli I will haul S to Aquileia - this is now Cammino Celeste or Iter Aquileiense - then make it over to Venezia on Via Grado-Aquileiense which connect Trieste (and Jakobova pot) with Venezia. From there on I will abandon the most popular route to France which is via Torino and then along Via Domitia. To San Felice del Parano I will be on Via Romea-Leona, then there is a two-day link via Carpi to Parma where I will join Via Francigena till Sarzana. From here along the Ligurian coast runs Via della Costa - which I think is not yet waymarked but there are already good descriptions on the net - although I will skip the first part because I want to walk Cinque Terre's Camino Azzurro. At the French-Italian borfer I will change Via della Costa for Via Aurelia (GR 653A) which is being developped as I write (there is already a preliminary guide available, and maps on the net) until Arles. There I will join one day with Via Tolosana, and from Saint Gilles-du-Gard make may way along the Mediterranean coast to Agde, then skip a little into the interior to Narbonne. Here runs Voie du Piemont Pyreneen but I will join it later, in Mas d'Azil, because I want to see the Cathar castles along Sentier Cathare first. From Mas d'Azil to Arudy is then Voie du Piemont Pyreneen, then I will join Voie d'Osseau until Somport. From here Camino Aragones, but the northern variant via Leyre, to Olatz, where I will hop to GR 220 around Pamplona to join Camino Frances in Huarte and follow it to Pamplona. And here starts perhaps the most abmitious part, Viejo Camino, all the way to Ponferrada where I chose Camino Invierno then Camino Sanabres to end in Santiago. And, of course, the last skip to Fisterra and Muxia. I did some calculations and it came to somewhere about 3300km... Blog
Here is a link to Caminka's excellent blog:
http://camino-medieval.webs.com/apps/blog/
Caminka
Wishing you many Blessings and much Grace as you continue along your Way
Regards
Lovingkindness
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