The Walking Pilgrim

Modern Routes - Route Details

Voie des Plantagenêts
Le Mont-Saint-Michel, Angers, Montreuil-Bellay; Montreuil-Bellay, Aulnay de Saintonge

Route map

A route from Mont-St-Michel to the GR655/Tours route, via Fougères, Vitré, Segré, Angers and Doué has been created. This route joins the GR36 N of Thouars, and follows it via Parthenay and Niort to the GR655 near Aulnay.
A guide to the whole route is published by Rando Edns; route sheets for the 210km Maine-et-Loire section are available from the Anjou Amis de St Jacques; the GR36 section (190km from Thouars) is also described in the GR655 Tours-Mirambeau topoguide.

Detailed mapping for sections (compare with list above):

  • Montreuil-Bellay-Aulnay de Saintonge
kmcumul kmview on map
Montreuil-Bellay - Thouars24.3924.39
Thouars-Niort114.71139.10
Niort-jct GR65563.71202.81
Section overviewAll sectionsIndividual section (select above) *
IGN (France) view view view
OpenStreetMapview view view
Bing mapsview view view
Google maps**view view view

- opens in separate tab/window
- viewing all sections may take long time to load on slow lines and/or machines
- OpenStreetMap/Bing/Google cover all countries; national topo maps only sections in that country
- * display of individual section does not work in popup on route overview page
- ** initial load of Google maps takes longer

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