Chemin de Compostelle: return trip to Chapelle Saint-Roch from Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Puy-en-Velay – Departure from Aiguilhe car park

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Chemin de Compostelle: return trip to Chapelle Saint-Roch from Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Puy-en-Velay – Departure from Aiguilhe car park

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Chemin de Compostelle: return trip to Chapelle Saint-Roch from Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Puy-en-Velay – Departure from Aiguilhe car park

09:22

33.6km

630m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Mostly walkable paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 6, 2024

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662 m

Cathedral Notre Dame of Puy-en-Velay

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A major religious building in Puy-en-Velay, Notre-Dame Cathedral offers at 7 a.m., every day from April 1 to October 31 and at 7:30 a.m., Monday to Friday, from November 1 …

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3.27 km

Road cross

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“Each of these crosses can tell its own story and what prompted people to erect “their” cross at this point. (...) These wayside crosses were erected as visible signs and …

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4.88 km

In the 19th century, chibottes or tsabones were temporary or seasonal dwellings in fields and vineyards. Thus the inhabitants of Puy-en-Velay who owned a vineyard in Vals-près-le-Puy, generally had a …

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17.4 km

Chapelle Saint-Roch

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Saint Roch, to whom this church/chapel is dedicated, was born in Montpellier, France, in the mid-14th century. He is popularly known - along with Saint Sebastian - as a "plague …

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24.0 km

Saint Christopher's Church

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The small Romanesque church from the 12th Century has a beautiful bell tower with four arcades and is built entirely from the reddish volcanic rock of the region.

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