The 3rd of 4 videos that describe a walk from Le Puy en Velay to the Spanish border at St. Jean Pied de Port. The mood of my first video was set by the wild and lonely Aubrac plateau. In my second video the mood changed as I walked through the beautifully preserved villages of the Lot River valley and on to Conques and Figeac. In this, my third video, the mood changes again as I leave Figeac to walk the vertiginous cliffs of the Cele River valley. The route eventually rejoins the Lot river and passes through another one of France’s designated ‘Les plus beaux villages en France’, the cliff-hanging St. Cirq-Lapopie, before continuing on to Cahors with its famous medieval bridge. The map that I use at the end of the video is from the Confraternity of St. James in the UK from whom I have written permission.
The route from Le Puy is one of France’s oldest medieval pilgrimage routes to Spain and links up with the famous el Camino, which crosses Northwest Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Thousands of pilgrims walked the route at great personal risk throughout the Middle Ages and the churches and hostels they visited are still there. The route was rediscovered and re-developed by volunteers several decades ago and is now one of France’s best loved long distance hiking paths. Hundreds of modern day pilgrims walk it each year and stay in the route’s network of pilgrim hostels or Gites. See my video for more information on the pilgrim’s passport or credential.
Ambitious walkers can finish this route, which is about 740 km, and pick up the el Camino at St. Jean Pied de Port or Roncesvalles in Spain, to continue to Santiago.
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