Hike 240 kilometres of a trail once used by merchants and mule-drivers, Crusaders and pilgrims heading for St Gilles’ tomb or to Le Puy-en-Velay for its Black Madonna.

The Régordane Waywas absolutely central to circulation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. As you hike it, you can explore the movement of people, merchandise and ideas at each stage. The Régordane Way still bears the traces of the fight for freedom of conscience and the successive challenges that it brought to the Catholic Church: Arianism, Catharism and Protestantism. It runs through very diverselandscapes, beginning with coniferous forests and lava flows in the norththat are gradually replaced by sweet-chestnut trees, broom and holm oak, and then by garrigue(Mediterranean scrubland)as you approach the Petite Camargue.