Pilgrim walks in France

The Speyer-Metz Way of St. James takes us from the ancient Roman city of Speyer through the Rhine plain to the German Wine Route and into the Palatinate Forest. After crossing this, we reach the Hornbach monastery, the Saarland and on to the French Lorraine, where our destination is Metz.

The Via Podiensis is one of the four historic Pilgrim's Ways of Saint James in France and runs through the regions of Auvergne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées and Aquitaine.

The Via Gebennensis is the continuation of the Swiss Way of St. James and runs from Geneva to Le Puy-en-Velay.

The Via Tolosana is one of the four great French Camino de Santiago and is considered the wildest and most adventurous of the four routes.

The Via Lemovicensis is one of the classic pilgrimage routes in France and runs through central and south-western France as part of the First Cultural Route of Europe.

The Speyer-Metz Way of St. James takes us from the ancient Roman city of Speyer through the Rhine plain to the German Wine Route and into the Palatinate Forest. After crossing this, we reach the Hornbach monastery, the Saarland and on to the French Lorraine, where our destination is Metz.

The southern variant of the Way of St. James Saarland-Lorraine leads us from Homburg-Kirrberg through the Bliesgau Biosphere Reserve to the Hornbach Monastery and on into French Lorraine, where the destination of our pilgrimage is Metz.

Die Nordvariante des Jakobswegs Saarland-Lothringen führt uns von Homburg-Kirrberg durchs Biosphärenreservat Bliesgau an Saarbrücken vorbei ins französische Lothringen, wo sich mit Metz auch das Ziel unserer Pilgerreise befindet.

From Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, the route crosses the Pyrenees and the French-Spanish border to the monastery of Roncesvalles. Numerous monuments along this route remind us of the famous knight Roland.

The Way of St. James Rottenburg-Thann leads us from the Neckar across the Black Forest into the Rhine plain of southern Baden and Alsace to the foot of the Vosges Mountains.