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Wandelkaart GR 70 The Stevenson Trail | IGN - Institut Géographique National Als overzichtskaart
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Wegenkaart 156 Le Puy en Velay - Privas - Mende | IGN - Institut Géographique National
Wegenkaart 163 Avignon - Nimes | IGN - Institut Géographique National
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1. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2835OT Le Puy-en-Velay | IGN - Institut Géographique National
2. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2836OT Gerbier de Jonc | IGN - Institut Géographique National
3. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2736SB Monistrol d'Allier, Solignac-sur-Loire, Cayres | IGN - Institut Géographique National
4. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2737SB Langogne - Grandrieu | IGN - Institut Géographique National
5. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2738SB Le Bleymard | IGN - Institut Géographique National
6. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2739OT Mont Lozère - Florac | IGN - Institut Géographique National
7. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2740ET Corniche des Cevennes | IGN - Institut Géographique National
8. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2741ET Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort | IGN - Institut Géographique National
Early one morning in the autumn of 1878 RLS set out from the sleepy village of Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille with his donkey, Modestine, to traverse the Velay and Cévennes to the small town of Saint-Jean-du-Gard in the south. Robert Louis Stevenson’s account of his 140-mile trek through southern France has long captured the imagination of walkers and lovers of literature alike. Today, the RLS Trail has become a classic route across the hills and along the valleys of this delightful region of rural France.
The route, which is well served by accommodation of all types, is divided into twelve day-stages in the guide, so that the Trail easily fits into a fortnight’s holiday. The book includes details of the facilities for the traveller and places of interest en route, together with a detailed route description and an account of Stevenson’s adventures with Modestine. For those with more time available, trails that link the beginning and end of the route are also described, making it is possible to walk all the way from the historic town of Le Puy to Alés.
Packed with snippets of fascinating information about this historic region, the guide is also of use to cyclists and motorists keen to trace a parallel road route, following in the footsteps of Stevenson and Modestine.
The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail is a linear long-distance walk through the Velay, Gévaudan and Cévennes regions of southern France. It follows closely, but not exactly, the route taken by the writer Robert Louis Stevenson (affectionately known as RLS), accompanied by his donkey, Modestine, during the autumn of 1878, and later recounted in his first successful book, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).
The trail meanders south for some 225km (140 miles), from Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille near Le Puy in the Velay, across the Cévennes mountains, to finish at Saint-Jean-du-Gard, west of Alès. In so doing, it crosses some of the most remote and finest country in rural France, and visits numerous towns and villages of historical importance, including Pradelles, Le Pont-de-Montvert and Florac. The latter sections of the trail pass through the land of the Camisards, an area ravaged by nearly 100 years of religious war between the local Protestants and their Catholic rulers.
Steden en Dorpen
Le Puy and St Jean de Gard at each end of the route. Also Florac, Fouzillac, La Bastide-Puylaurent, Pradelles, Le Pont de Montvert
