Hiking guide - Compostela, from Le Puy to the Pyrenees | Glénat

The complete and 100% practical guide for a successful journey on the Via Podiensis, towards Santiago de Compostela.

The Chemin du Puy. The Via Podiensis. In other words: the most popular pilgrimage route to Compostela in France. Perhaps because it offers more (or better) than the others a genuine richness stemming from its geographical and heritage diversity. Or perhaps because communion with oneself, with others, with the distant goal, with the elements, and with history is more manifest here than anywhere else? It is up to everyone to find their own answer, step by step, over more than 700 km to the foot of the Pyrenees, at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. And the Way does not stop there...
This fully updated pocket-sized guide presents it in 29 stages passing through Aubrac, Conques, Cahors, Moissac, and Aire-sur-l'Adour, following the GR 65® route, while detouring when the grass is greener elsewhere—or the route more direct. Detailed description of the route, 1/100,000 scale maps^e and stage profiles, maps of the main towns crossed, a qualified selection of accommodations at each stage, and a historical and heritage memo: everything is here for a successful journey.
The Chemin du Puy will open up to you between solitude and a quest for meaning, between sharing and silence, between effort and contemplation.