Sv: Re: Assisi and Firenze

[fkjaer]

Margaret,

Try this. It might be something like that you are looking for.
http://www.viafrancigena.com/

Besides that I do not know much about pilgrims routes in Italy.
When I returned from my own walk from St. Jean to Burgos last year I found that my wife had bought us a holiday in Tuscany, Italy, where we were to stay at a convent in Cortona, "to prevent you from any abstinences", my wife joked. We saw Arezzo, Montepulchiano, Sienna and Asissi.
By the church at the hilltop of Cortona there was a little track which we walked one day, and suddenly my eyes were caught by some red/white stripes painted on trees and rocks. Just like in southern France and the Pyrenees! It seemed that we were walking on a pilgrims road! And in Asissi and later in Sienna I saw an elderly pilgrim with af big brown cloak, a staff with a scallop-shell with the cross of St. James and a big wide-brimmed hat, also with a scallop shell. I asked him if he was on his way to Santiago de Compostela, but we didn't have any language in common.

An American, with whom I have exchanged e-mails, and who is also a Santiago Pilgrim wrote to me that he was sure that pilgrims walked not only in Italy, but also from Italy to Santiago. In fact, he met an Italian pilgrim in Logroño who was doing the Camino for the fourth time. Each time his special petition was to free a Basque prisoner from jail, and according to him three prisoners had been freed, one at a time right after he had completed a pilgrimage to Santiago!

Frans from Denmark.