Welcome to Regordane Info, the independent portal for The Regordane or the Saint-Giles Way in France. This forgotten trail, once the fourth most important pilgrimage in Christendom, is in the process of being rediscovered in the age of health-oriented, experiential travel.
This re-birth of interest is a positive development for arguably the most influential hiking trail in France and in French history. Nevertheless, the public deserve the whole truth. The newly-launched GR700, a cosmetic version of the medieval Regordane Way, sacrifices historic veracity for supposedly safer trails nearer to accommodation and watering holes.
This sanitised experience fails to address the real interests of enlightened travellers wishing to tread the authentic and sacred path. Furthermore, it is guilty of ignoring far more important and original tracts of the medieval Regordane. These it assigns to the cultural graveyard, and in the name of modern tourism pursues for its emasculated and impoverished protégé the false epithet of European Cultural Route.
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