Via Turonensis

The via Turonensis (or Tours sees) is the Latin name of one of the four ways of France of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle, more in north. It leaves the Tour Saint-Jacob to Paris, then crosses Orleans, Tours, Poitiers, Bordeaux. At the stage of Ostabat, it is joined by the Via Lemovicensis and the Via Podiensis, on the level of the Carrefour of Gibraltar. It crosses the Spanish border by the Col of Roncevaux where it takes the name of Camino navarro. It meets the Via Tolosane with Puente Reina and, starting from this stage, carries on its road until Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle under the name of Camino frances.

History

In the chapter first of sound Guide of the Pilgrim (12th century), Aimery Picaud describes it via Turonensis thus:

“There are four roads which, driving in Saint-Jacob, meet into only one with Puente Reina, in Spanish territory; ……, another still passes by Saint Martin's day de Tours, Saint-Hilaire of Poitiers, Saint-Jean-with Angély, Saint-Eutrope the Holy ones and the town of Bordeaux. ”

Gathering with Paris the pilgrims of Saint-Jacob (or Jacquet S ) come from north and the North-East from Europe, “main road of Saint-Jacob” gained, by Orleans or Chartres, celebrates it sanctuary of Saint Martin's day de Tours which was worth to him the name of via Turonensis .

It is medieval church Saint-Jacques-of-The-Butchery in Paris which left the million pilgrims in direction of Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle. At the beginning of Paris, Saint-Jacob de Montrouge opened the road of Stamps.

After Poitou, liked Aimery Picaud, and the Romance wonders of the churches of Saintonge, the heroes epic took again life with the sanctuaries of Bordeaux, Blaye and Belin, giving to the jacquets the force to face the arid crossing of the Moors and the heights of the Col of Roncevaux, to reach the ground of the Jacques apostle finally and to join, via Pampelune, the Camino francés with Puente Reina.

The principal way

  • Paris, district of Châtelet. The starting point is at the level of the Tour Saint-Jacob, vestige of the medieval church Saint-Jacques-of-The-Butchery, then while following the street Saint-Jacob the Saint-Jacob church of Haut-Pas. Continuation by the Rue of Falls-Issoire

the Essonne

  • Longpont-on-Barley
  • Étréchy
  • Stamps, the church Saint Basile, collegial the Notre-Dame of the Fort, and the Guinette tower.
  • Angerville, the church Saint-Germain de Dommerville and the vault Villeneuve

Eure-et-Loir

Loiret

Loir-et-Cher

Indre-et-Loire

  • Amboise, the church Saint-Florentin cheese, the Saint-Hubert vault, and the royal castle
  • Turns, the cathedral Saint-Gatien, the Cloister of Psalette, the palate of the old archbishop's palace, and the Charlemagne Tower.
  • Montbazon
  • Holy-Moor-with-Touraine, the church Holy-Moor and the old castle of Rohan

Vienna

  • Châtellerault, the church Jacques Saint and the bridge Henri IV
  • Poitiers: church Saint-Hilaire-the-Large, the cathedral Saint-Pierre, the church Notre-Dame Large the, the Baptistry Midsummer's Day, the Holy-Radegonde church,

Two-Sevres

  • Parthenay, the Saint-Jacob door, the church Saint Pierre
  • Lusignan, the Mélusine fairy, the Church Notre-Dame and Saint-Junien
  • Chenay, that-on-Beautiful church Notre-Dame
  • ,
  • Miss: church Saint-Hilaire the church Savinien Saint, and the church Saint Pierre

Charente-Maritime

  • Aulnay, the church Saint-Pierre
  • Saint-Jean-with Angély, and its Holy abbey
  • , the church Saint-Eutrope, old the cathedral Saint-Pierre, the Abbey-with-Ladies, the Sainte-Marie church. (Since Holy, an alternative leaves in direction the Mortagne-on-Gironde, the Talmont-on-Gironde and Soulac-on-Sea. From there, the pilgrim continues on the Voie of Soulac or joined the stage of Bordeaux either while going along the Estuaire of the Gironde, or while passing by the stages of Hourtin, Lacanau, Sainte-Hélène).
  • Saint-Leger
  • Pons, the Saint-Gilles door, the church Vivien Saint, the New Hospital and the Saint-Gilles vault.
  • Plassac
  • Mirambeau

the Gironde

  • Blaye and its citadel
  • Safe Major the (abbey)
  • Langoiran (Priory Saint-Germain hospital, depend on the Benedictine abbey Saint-Etienne-of-Be worth, in Saintonge)
  • Bordeaux, the cathedral Saint-Andrew, the Saint-Pierre church, the Basilique Saint-Michel, the church Sainte Marie and the Basilique Saint-Seurin,
  • Gradignan, priory of Cayac
  • Canéjan and its Old people's home - Priory.
  • Cestas, the Saint-Andrew church and the Vault of Toctoucau
  • Barp, the old Holy hospital Jacques
  • Belin-Béliet
  • Saugnacq-and-Low wall and its vault

Moors

Yrénées-Atlantiques

  • Arancou
  • Ostabat . On this last stage, the junction in fact with two other ways, the Via Lemovicensis and the Via Podiensis, on the level of the crossroads of Gibraltar. The way continues with the Via Podiensis, the francés Camino navarro and the Camino until Saint-Jacob de Compostelle.

Alternatives

from Paris with Tours by Chartres

  • Rambouillet, the Castle of Rambouillet
  • Chartres, the cathedral Notre-Dame
  • Bonneval, the Abbey Saint-Florentin cheese
  • Châteaudun, the church Saint-Jean-of-the-Chain, the church of the Madeleine, the Saint-Valérien church and the Ste Chapelle
  • Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse its Priory
  • Fréteval, the Saint Nicolas's Day Church and the Castle of Fréteval
  • Vendôme the church of the Madeleine, old the abbey of the Trinity and Collegial the Saint-Georges
  • Lavardin, the Saint-Genest church and vestiges of the feudal castle of the counts de Vendôme
  • Montoire-on-the-Dormouse, its priory and the frescos of the vault Saint-Gilles
  • Saint-Jacques-of-Guérets the as it goes from is the church Jacques saint.
  • Castle-Renault, the church Saint-Andrew

from Poitiers to Bordeaux by Angouleme

Internal bonds

External bond

  • stages of the way of Saint Jacques
  • Via turonensis, the way of Turns towards Compostelle, with foot or VTT: routes, beaconing, description…
  • has VTT on the ways of Compostelle, it via turonensis and all the ways towards Compostelle, for the walkers and VTTistes.

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