Which Camino Route goes through Arras France?

[Former member 92300]

I started the Via Francigena last week in Canterbury. Yesterday the route merged with a Camino de Santiago route. Does anyone know what Camino route goes through Arras? I started seeming the shells sometime after Parc d’Olhain.

 

[Pelerina]

Bonjour Jeanine. This may help. From the map looks like two chemins pass through Arras, one coming from Amsterdam and from Denmark. Others who have more knowledge may chime in.

Arras-Compostelle (62) - Pèlerins de Compostelle

Copyright 2016 Fabienne Bodan https://pelerinsdecompostelle.com

pelerinsdecompostelle.com

 

[Kathar1na]

On the website of the excellent Flemish Compostela Association it is described as a nameless lesser known pilgrimage way from Arras to Épernon that connects with the Way from Paris to Chartres to the south and with the Way from Bruges to the north. Apparently worked out by two local French pilgrimage associations. In these fairly flat areas everything can be a pilgrimage path . No guidebook but information in digital form about accommodation and trajectory is available, says the website (in Dutch):

Arras → Épernon – Vlaams Compostelagenootschap

compostelagenootschap.be

 

[Kathar1na]

Arras → Épernon – Vlaams Compostelagenootschap

compostelagenootschap.be

The website has interactive maps. You can see the trail from Arras to Épernon as well as the trail from Bruges (via Brugensis) which is an erstwhile historic pilgrimage way and the trail Paris-Chartres and beyond which is part of the more widely known via Turonensis. Arras-Épernon goes through Amiens with its great Gothic cathedral.

 

[mspath]

For more on the VF from Canterbury through Arras see this earlier thread.
Arras was the site of one of the most horrific battles of WW1. As you cross the area today remember what took place in 1917 .

 

[David Tallan]

For more on the VF from Canterbury through Arras see this earlier thread.
Arras was the site of one of the most horrific battles of WW1. As you cross the area today remember what took place in 2017 .

I think you overshot by a century and the battle took place in 1917.

 

[mspath]

I think you overshot by a century and the battle took place in 1917.

Sorry. I was rushing to tend to an emergency here at home. Of course you are correct. At least the included link states the correct date of summer 1917. I now have corected the error.
Mea culpa.