Chemin de Tours

The Mont-Saint-Michel TrailSince their foundation in 1998, the European Cultural Routes have played an active role in building a network of cultural exchanges on a European scale. Then as now, the Camino del Monte and the Camino de Compostela form a network of European itineraries, some of which are shared, enabling people to travel from one shrine to another as part of their long-distance itinerary, thanks to the "shared paths".
Along with Compostela, Mont-Saint-Michel is one of Europe's major pilgrimage shrines and a focal point for itineraries. It is the meeting place and departure point for the jacquets and the arrival point for the miquelots. The archangel and the apostle. The Channel and the Atlantic, the bay between Normandy and Brittany and the distant cape of Galicia. All these elements bear witness to the growing contemporary links between these two sites, which are listed as Unesco World Heritage Sites on the Pilgrimage Route to Santiago de Compostela (serial number 868).

There are currently three routes linking these two major pilgrimage sanctuaries. These three routes join the Tours route and the Pilgrim's Way to Santiago de Compostela, which is signposted and described in numerous guidebooks. They are the "Voie des Capitales", the "Voie des Plantagenêt" and the "Grand Chemin montois". Thanks to partnerships with pilgrimage associations in Brittany, Anjou, Maine and Touraine, these shared paths are signposted in both directions. For example, jacquets departing from the Mont follow the stylised yellow shells of Compostela and miquelots, who come from the "south", follow the cyan-blue signposts of the Mont-Saint-Michel Trail.

The internet portal for the Atlantic Arc pilgrimage routes will help you get to know the sites of the various associations of historic paths in the West, from Normandy to the Basque Country... and from Brittany to Touraine... : Historical and pilgrimage routes of the Atlantic Arc
This portal provides a brief presentation of each of the associations that promote, develop and maintain the Pilgrim's Routes to Santiago de Compostela and Mont-Saint-Michel! It should be noted, however, that it has not been updated for several years and does not take into account the creation of more recent associations such as Compostelle53 and other routes

Le "Chemin de Tours" or "Grand Chemin montois starts in Tours and runs to Le Mans via Neuillé-Pont-Pierre and Château-du-Loir. After Le Mans, the route passes through Sillé-le-Guillaume, Bais, Mayenne, Gorron, Landivy, Louvigné-du-Désert and Saint-James. This route is "double signposted" (towards Le Mont or towards Compostela), and is described in the guide The Pilgrimage Routes to Mont-Saint-Michel. The Great Montois Way available from the Association (13 € (+ postage). see section Shop.
Since its publication in 2014, the route has been revised in certain places to improve its quality. The changes can be downloaded here and online.

• Modifs route in Mayenne
• Modifs route in Sarthe

on the website of each local association to have  Compostela 72 and Compostelle 53 and other routes