🚶 Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France — Via Turonensis
Medieval pilgrimage route across France toward Spain
📌 Fast Facts
- Route length: approximately 680 kilometres across France
- Origin point: Paris or Basilica of Saint-Denis in Île-de-France
- One of four major medieval pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela
- UNESCO inscription: 1998
The Via Turonensis is a pilgrimage route in France that connects Paris or the Île-de-France region to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Named after the veneration of Saint Martin centred in Tours, this approximately 680-kilometre path has functioned as a major pilgrimage network for nearly a thousand years and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998. The route passes through Tours, Poitiers, and Bordeaux, following established medieval itineraries and Roman ...