I have gotten a lot of information from my contact in Girona at the Amigos Association. I knew there was a dispute between the Generalitat, which has marked the "fake route" I'm planning to walk, and the Camino folks.
According to my contact in the Camino Association in Girona, the historical route to Girona starts in Coll de Banyuls in France. From there it goes to the Monastery of Sant Quirze de Colera (French border) and proceeds from there to the Monastery de Sant Pere de Rodes. That is essentially the route I am going to be doing, but I will be starting about a day's walk beyond the starting point. If I had more time, now that I know this, I would make it a point to get up to the monastery of Sant Quirze, but I don't, so I will join up with that route at the Monastery of Sant Pere.
On leaving Girona is where the real diversion starts. The "false camino" goes back up to Vic, and then through Manresa to Montserrat. The historical camino goes from Girona to Fornells de la Selva, Riudellots, Mallorquines, Sant Celoni, Granolleres, Sabadell, Terrasa, Montserrat. This is called the Via Augusta.
There is also an historical Camino to Vic. This is the route that I think Eze started. It goes from the French border to Coll d'Ares, Molló, Camprodón, Ripoll, Roda de Ter, Vic.
So it looks to me that to be historical, you have a choice of going either to Girona or Vic. What the Generalitat has done has been to patch together a new route that zigs around a bit, and takes a weird detour leading north of Girona to get to Vic so that it can go through both of them.
So, now I have a few doubts about whether to change my post-Girona route. I could try to walk the historical route to Montserrat from Girona, on google maps it is only 132 kms, which I should be able to do in the 6 days I have between leaving Girona and meeting up with LTfit in Montserrat (and Lee, I see that the historical route seems to join with one of the routes from Barcelona, since Terrassa is mentioned as being on the route from Girona and on Gronze from Barcelona).
But I have also learned that there is no guide on the route from Girona to Montserrat on the Via Augusta, so that leads me to think I should stick with my fake route. The other attraction is the amount of romanesque between Girona and Montserrat on the fake route. I count at least three monasteries, maybe more.
As you can see, I am sort of debating with myself on this thread, if anyone has insights, they would be much appreciated.
Buen camino, Laurie