Sauze d
  • +Summer
    • Summer
    • Freeride
    • Mountain Biking
    • Off-Road
    • Strada dell’Assietta
    • Hiking
    • Gran Bosco Natural Park
    • Road Cycling
    • Bicycle Hire
    • Jogging & Trail Running
    • Adventure Village
    • Rafting & Fishing
    • Summer Events
  • +Winter
    • Winter
    • Ski Area & Piste Map
    • Ski & Snowboard
    • Ski & Snowboard Schools
    • Ski & Snowboard Hire
    • Accessible Ski
    • Off Piste
    • Non Skiers
    • Winter Walking
    • Winter Ski Bus
    • Winter Events
    • Ski & Snowboard For Less
  • Accommodation
    • Hotels
    • Bed & Breakfast
    • Houses & Apartments
    • Rooms to Rent
  • Information
    • Useful Information
      • Travel Information
      • Driving to Sauze d’Oulx
      • Emergency Contacts
      • Useful Numbers
      • Sauze Shops
      • Eating & Drinking
      • Piemonte Food
      • Sauze Sports Centre
      • Child Creche
    • About Sauze
      • About Sauze
      • History of Sauze
      • Sauze Gold
      • 2006 Winter Olympics
      • Caring for the Environment
      • Art in the Forest
      • About Piemonte
      • Sauze Tourist Information Centre
    • Places to Visit
      • Forts and History
      • Susa
      • Turin
      • Briancon
      • Sacra di San Michele
      • Frescos and Religious Art
      • Via Francigena
    • News & More
      • Weather
      • Webcams
      • Celebrities in Sauze
      • Twinning
      • Website Credits
      • Privacy Policy
      • Sauze Video
      • Facebook (English)
      • Sauze App
  • English
    • Italian
    • French
  • Menu Menu

Via Francigena

The Via Francigena is the common name of an ancient road and pilgrim route running from France to Rome, although it is usually considered to have its starting point much further away, in the English cathedral city of Canterbury. As such, the route passes through England, France, Switzerland and Italy.

The route was known in Italy as the “Via Francigena” (“the road that comes from France”). In medieval times it was an important road and pilgrimage route for those wishing to visit the Holy See and the tombs of the apostles Peter and Paul.

The increasing use of the via Francigena as a trade route led to the unprecedented development of many towns along the way. The way became an essential route to take the goods from the east (silk, spices) to the markets of northern Europe and trade them, usually in the Champagne fairs, for cloth from Flanders and Brabant. In the thirteenth century trade grew to such an extent that several alternative routes to the via Francigena were developed, and it therefore, lost its unique character and broke into numerous different routes linking the north and Rome.

Part of this route travels through the Susa Valley and remains a popular walking and ppilgrimage route.

For more information use the websites below.

http://www.viefrancigene.org/en/

http://www.camminafrancigena.it/

This video details a walk along the Via Francigena in the high Susa valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmaLageUjbk

Photo © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/ Wikipedia/ Creative Commons
  • Forts and History
  • Frescos and Religious Art
  • Gran Bosco Natural Park
  • Briancon
  • Sacra di San Michele
  • Via Francigena
  • Susa
  • Turin
© Comune di Sauze d'Oulx 2023
 | 

An Alps Creative website

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings.

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.

3rd Party Cookies

This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.

Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website.

Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences!

Cookie Policy

More information about our Cookie & Privacy Policy

Scroll to top