Category: Hiking the Camino Via Podiensis

Camino Via Podiensis or Le Puy Route, Starts in Le Puy en Velay with its famous Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Puy, where pilgrims can be blessed each morning before starting their pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.   The route goes from the high plateau of the Massif Central, dropping suddenly to follow the valley of the river Lot, where there is a series of fairy-tale villages.  Crossing the Tarn and the Adour, the track enters the rich undulating expanses of Gascony before finally arriving at the Basque village of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, the end of the French half of the pilgrimage and the beginning of the very famous French Way.