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This is the path that comes in Catalonia by the right of the Valira and, without changing position, connected to the main trunk road by Segre Castellciutat.
It is said that this is the old Roman road that ran through this valley; and as there was life before the Romans, we must believe that the age of the plot is much higher.
Later, probably, it was also the road that followed the pilgrims to Compostela. Thus, we will name as the pilgrimage route in the valley of Valira.
We highlight follows the alternative route that ran through the courrent principality of Andorra and coming from the city of Foix FOIX→PAS DE LA CASA→ ENCAMP→ RANSOL (Canillo)→ ESCALDES→ ANDORRA LA VELLA→ SANT JULIÀ DE LÒRIA→La borda d’En Canturri (=Cal Sabater)→partida dita El Vinyer→LA FARGA DE MOLES. We stop to make comparisons with what has come to us orally and the current situation where the construction of the esplanade of the customs building has removed the signs of the past.
It seems that, in past times, there were a group of facilities below the Runer river, as was hobnails own forge horseshoes and footwear and also industry cut the slab made the traditional way. Above the tower of the Bastida of Ponts, which was destroyed by the French in the War of the Reapers she was. In this area there was a lever for safe passage of animals and people, not far from the actual passage of said bridge castle of Ponts Bastida suitable for people and carriages and the toll that the people are paying the Borda del Cavaller, which included the mill of Can Clotet who were millers, slaters and farriers.
→ Continue along the river right VALIRA; Cabanelles below, we will go down the road of Santa Lucia and to our right, we will find three old pretty well camouflaged nests of machine guns; leave a bit far, to our left, the said Poblador and Patau huts and Saint Lucia electric power plant. Let's stop the N-145.
Now, it is up to other description in sections:
Catalan Section: La Farga de Moles, Anserall and La Seu d’Urgell /Castellciutat. 02:50 h 12,300 Km.
To study it better, we have to split into different sections the Catalan section which passes through the municipalities of Valls de Valira and La Seu d’Urgell.
Section A: From the Farga de Moles to the first cut caused by the ongoing reform of the N-145 (already explained).
Section B: The cut in the first modification of the course of the N-145 part (already explained).
Section C: From Section B to the Anserall old bridge. It is part of the old way to Civís and passing under the metal bridge on Cortingles comes to the new cemetery of Anserall, at the bottom of St. Saturnin de Tavèrnoles along some orchards for floodplain of the Valira and reaches the bridge over the Anserall (or Estelareny) ravine and proceed through the lower part of town to the old bridge.
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SANT SERNI DE TAVÈRNOLES AND THE BRANCH OF THE SAINT JAMES PATH BY THE VALIRA RIVER VALLEYS
| In our studies on the Andorran St. James path, always we take advantage of the excellent bibliographic data and, sometimes, partially extracted from an article published in 2008 in the journal Portaveu del Segre Mitjà, Ponts, by professor and historian Mr.Manuel Gabriel Fons, with collaboration of Mr. Francisco Alcázar Domingo, ex-president of the deleted Association of Friends of the St.James Path for the Segre, also of that population of Ponts. We say, then, that these data mentioned are one of the sources of this paper.
Let's also say that for some current researchers, called the Catalan St. James path is just a pipe dream; this, however, is to do justice to the historical reality. In fact, we should speak of a network of roads and pathways which, although they are not attributed a particularly Jacobean function, the truth is that were traveled by pilgrims from the tenth century, and that during the Middle Ages They were the only possible ways to reach Santiago de Compostela.
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