🥾 Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France — The Vézelay Way (Crozant – La Coquille)
Medieval pilgrimage trail through rural France, part of the Camino de Santiago network
📌 Fast Facts
- Region: Limousin and Aquitaine, spanning Creuse and Dordogne departments
- Route type: Historic pilgrimage trail, marked as GR 65 and regional variants
- Segment: Crozant to La Coquille, part of the Via Lemovicensis
- UNESCO inscription: 1998
The Vézelay Way is a pilgrimage trail in rural France that connects Crozant and La Coquille through the Limousin and Aquitaine regions as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France. The route follows the historic Via Lemovicensis, a medieval path that linked religious communities across central France toward the shrine of Saint James in northwest Spain. The Vézelay Way was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 alongside three other major French ...