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	La Via Francigena è
		After the fall of the Roman Empire the Via Francigena was reduced to poor condition because of the notable reduction of the commerce and the trips during the barbaric invasions.
		The layout of the Road Francigena in its Italian section is sketched with the entrance of the Longobards at the end of the seventh century.
		The Via Francigena assisted in Europe's general renewing of spirit that adds to a demographic increase, and to a progressive economic comfort.
	www.francigena.org /histoty_franc.htm (1160 words)

	In Italy Online - LA VIA FRANCIGENA IN THE "VALLEY OF THE ABBEYS"
		he Via Francigena is a historical itinerary leading to Rome from Canterbury, a major route used by thousands of northern European pilgrims on their way to Rome.
		n Piedmont, the Susa Valley section of the "Via Francigena," from Turin to Lyons via Moncenisio, is a segment of one of the many "Via Francigena" itineraries that crossed the Alps during the Middle Ages.
		Thanks to The Via Francigena for the map of Europe and parts of the text.
	www.initaly.com /regions/piedmont/vallabby.htm (1283 words)

	Via Francigena
		Investigation of the history, maps and archives has made it possible, however, to establish that, rather than a single stretch of road, there was a band of thoroughfares, either one on top of another or side by side, depending on the hydrology, history, politics, and demography that have marked the history of this territory.
		Following the track of a local Roman road from Pozzeveri, the Francigena proceeded to Porcari, and this is probably the itinerary followed by Sigerico at the end of the 10th century.
		Over the course of time the "via de supra" is most mentioned in the documents as the "via et strata Romea" and is cited in 1034 at the locality "Felicaio" (today lost) in the vicinity of Lunata.
	www.provincia.lucca.it /laprovincia/turismo/Francigena/altopascioen.htm (2389 words)

	Your way to Florence:accommodation, tourist services and resources of Chianti, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
		The Via Francigena or Via Romea was first documented in 990 by Sigeric, Archbishop of Canterbury, in his Diary regarding the places he passed through as he returned to Canterbury after receiving from the Pope, the "pallium", a circular band of white wool with pendants, worn by archbishops over the chasuble.
		The roads that Sigeric followed became known as the Via Francigena (the road to France) or "Via Romea" (the road to Rome) and was for centuries used by merchants, prelate, soldiers and pilgrims traveling back and forth from the north of Europe to Rome and Jerusalem carrying ideas as well as money and produce.
		Today the Via Francigena enters Tuscany at the Cisa Pass in the area called Lunigiana north of Pontremoli and goes south toward Acquapendente in Lazio passing through Lucca and Siena.
	www.arca.net /tourism/toscana/francig.htm (1976 words)

	Colle di Val D'Elsa
		As we walk along Via dei Fossi, with the impressive remains of the glorious 19th century Vecchia Vetreria Boschi, we reach the Piazza and the Church of S. Agostino (13th-14th centuries), rebuilt in 1521 by Antonio da Sangallo il Vecchio.
		Via della Porta Vecchia stretches past the cistern of the Torrione, dating back to the 16th century and leads us across a bridge with 10 arches to the early 13th century Convent of S. Francesco.
		The eastern side of the Bishop's palace is flanked by the picturesque Via di Mezzo, while further down Via del Castello we reach Palazzo dei Priori, whose façade is decorated by an elegant graffito (15th century) and by a large Medici coat of arms on the corner.
	www.galeit.com /elsa.htm (3347 words)

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		The Via Francigena developed in the course of centuries from the union of different portions of Roman roads in order to face the new political and military situation that arose in the VI-VIIth centuries.
		From Lucca the Via Francigena turned north towards Borgo a Mozzano; in the other direction it crossed present day Capannori, Porcari, Altopascio, continuing east towards Fucecchio.
		Historians who have studied the Via Francigena prefer to speak of an "area of the road": indeed, it was not just a single road, but a bundle of roads with several branches that for territorial or even economic reasons left the main route to catch up with it at important junctions.
	mora.cribecu.sns.it /AV/ENG/MON/FOR_M0003/index.asp (474 words)

	DiscoursTedeschi-EN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The association's aim is to redevelop and promote the Via Francigena, an ancient pilgrims' way which was recognised as a European cultural route by the Council of Europe in 1994, and which has the great honour to be awarded today the certification of "Major Cultural Route of the Council of Europe".
		The Via Francigena, which runs from Canterbury to Rome, became a route beginning in the Middle Ages, followed not only by thousands of pilgrims seeking to atone for their sins in the capital of Christianity, but also by merchants, soldiers, royalty and people of every variety.
		It is for that very reason that the coordination provided by the association of municipalities is politically active to make the Via Francigena a cultural route bringing together public and private initiatives (on the local, regional, national and European scales) by contributing to the emergence and the development of tangible opportunities for co-operation.
	www.coe.int /t/e/DGIV/CulturalConvention/Web/DiscoursTedeschi-EN.asp (775 words)

	Via Francigena: Trekking The Pathway To Paradise ~ by Brandon Wilson
		Originally the Via Francigena (V.F.) stretched as a series of trails from Canterbury, England to Rome.
		Today, thanks to the efforts of the Rome-based Association Via Francigena and European Council that recently named the V.F. a “Cultural Itinerary,” this historic path is re-emerging phoenix-like from the ashes of historic obscurity.
		The Via Francigena presents many opportunities to discover precious art and architecture, such as Siena’s magnificent marbled Duomo, or its neighboring living museums in Lucca and San Gimignano.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam/66/Walking_The_Via_Francigena.html (2176 words)

	CasaVacanze, Casa Vacanze, Via Francigena, ViaFrancigena, Farmstay, Farmhouse, Holiday House, Toscana, Tuscany, ...
		Surrounded by an estate of more than 300 hectares cultivated in vineyards, olive groves and in part for pasture, the complex of the Castle and of the Farm is constituted by the old villa master and of a series of colonial houses positioned in a charming natural frame, with splendid woods and three lovely lakes.
		The parish was built along the stretch of road between Via Francigena that links Lucca and Siena and goes back to the year 1000 as documented.
		For almost all of the middle ages this road remained the only access possible for pilgrims or travellers to use for crossing Italy on their way to Rome, as proof, a list of places was provided by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his journey from London to Rome at the end of the 10th Century.
	www.fuoriportacoiano.com /en/cennistorici.htm (660 words)

	the via francigena
		It was in 1994 that, following the presentation by the Italian Tourism Ministry, the Advisory Committee of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe decided to recommend the election of the Via Francigena as a theme.
		This association that gathers many "friends" publishes vademecums and concluded a partnership agreement with the Institute in 1999 to study the manner of restoring continuity between the countries and the communities involved in the whole route and to implement a policy of information and joint documentation.
		In 1999 the province commissioned to the same architect a study on the landscapes of Via Francigena in the Sienna territory.
	www.culture-routes.lu /php/fo_index.php?lng=en&dest=bd_pa_det&id=00000004 (604 words)

	Via Francigena: Trekking the Highway to Heaven by Brandon Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Originally the Via Francigena (V.F.) stretched as a series of trails from Canterbury, England to Roma.
		Today, thanks to the efforts of the Roma-based Association Via Francigena and European Council which recently named the V.F. a "Cultural Itinerary," this historic path is reemerging phoenix-like from the ashes of historic obscurity.
		The Genesis of the Via Francigena:The Via of Mount Bardone
	www.wanderingtheworld.com /francigena (2165 words)

	--V I A - F R A N C I G E N A -- Pilgerweg - Frankenweg -Information - Karten - Wegbeschreibung
		The largely unknown existence of the Via Francigena is astonishing, particularly as in the year 1996 this pilgrim route was declared was designated by the Council of Europe as a ‘European Cultural Itinerary'.
		The Via Francigena, leading from Canterbury to Rome, is mentioned in fl and white for the first time 876 p.Chr..
		Along the Via Ffrancigena many world-famed cathedrals, monasteries, hospices and other buildings were built and a lot of them function as centres of spiritualism and culture.
	www.via-francigena.com /1_Englisch/3Geschichten/geschichte_allgemein_e.html (637 words)

	Association Via Francigena: Welcome
		The Via Francigena, the ancient pilgrim route from Canterbury across France, Switzerland and Italy to Rome, was documented by a 10th-century English archbishop.
		The Via Francigena has been designated as a Cultural Route by the Council of Europe in 1994 and in Dic.
		The association forms a community of past, present and future pilgrims, and those who follow the Via or are interested in any aspect of the pilgrimage are invited to contribute to its work.
	www.francigena.ch (255 words)

	DiscoursTrezzini-EN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The International Association Via Francigena, a non-profit association registered in Switzerland, is honoured to include among its founding members and committee members the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Bernard Ardura, the Académie Française member, Charles Bonnet, and the National Association of Tourist Guides of Italy (ANGT).
		The Institute of Luxembourg therefore concluded a partnership agreement with the International Association Via Francigena in 1998 with a view to restoring continuity between the countries and local and regional authorities involved over the entire length of the route.
		Judging by the first statistics from the Register of Pilgrims in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the Via Francigena is already acting as a CATALYST for European religious, spiritual and cultural values for the young and not-so-young from all over the world.
	www.coe.int /t/e/DGIV/CulturalConvention/Web/DiscoursTrezzini-EN.asp (486 words)

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		The area is ideal for food interest journeys or to visit the natural parks of Taro, Carrega and Prinzera woods, that are located a few kilometres far, and the “Guatelli” peasant history museum.
		Other suggested trips are to the Via Francigena and the Parma and Piacenza Dutchy castles.
		Parma town, with its museums and the Verdi festival, is 25km far and, being close to the motorway, it is easy to move from there to farther destinations in Emilia, Liguria or Lombardy.
	www.bblatorretta.it /eng (193 words)

	La Via Francigena - Overview
		The traveller of "La Via Francigena" is aware of both his mission and his responsibility...
		The regions that La Via Francigena had kept united for centuries past, may once again benefit from this newly re-established link that ties them together, and rediscover commonly shared cultural aspects and economic interests.
		If some of the regions crossed by La Via Francigena are among the most beautiful and popular in Europe, others are less remarkable little known and off the beaten track.
	www.giovannicaselli.com /francigena/overview.htm (371 words)

	Discoveritalia - Itineraries - The Via Francigena in Alto Lazio: route
		A short distance from the residential centre, on the old Via Cassia, are many ruins of baths, famous since the Etruscans, such as the ponte Camillario, made of a single arch of large blocks held together by its own weight and without cement.
		An example is Urban IV's remodelling of the delightful church of San Flaviano, on the old Via Francigena.
		Back on the Via Francigena from Viterbo to Acquapendente we stop for a few hours in the town of Gradoli, summer residence of the Farnese, founders of the Farnese dukedom.
	www.discoveritalia.it /iwe/itinerario.asp?lingua=en&tipoItinerario=1&IDidea=10 (2319 words)

	La via Francigena: mappa Europa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Moreover, by agreeing to the requests of the local authorities involved,the Council of Europe has declared the Via Francigena a "European Cultural Itinerary", like the route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
		This recognition testifies to Europe's cultural identity in the broadest sense of the word, by appreciating both its peculiarities and its unity and by laying special emphasis on its artistic patrimony.
		The Via Francigena represented in fact the union and communication of cultures and ideas belonging to a wide European community expressing then the wish and need for unity which has eventually led today to the breaking-down of national barriers.
	www.viafrancigena.com /map_eu_e.htm (160 words)

	Overview: Via Francigena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The "Via Francigena" is first mentioned in a parchment in the abbey of San Salvatore al Monte Amiata in 876 AD.
		Guida alla Via Francigena: 900 chilometri a piedi sulle strade del pellegrinaggio verso Roma, Monica d'Atti and Franco Conti.
		La Via Francigena Guida per il pellegrinaggio a piedi dal Gran San Bernado a Roma, Luciano Pisoni and Aldo Galli, ADLE Edizioni, Padova, 2004.
	www.csj.org.uk /route-viafrancigena.htm (739 words)

	CHIANTI - La via Cassia - ITINERARI TEMATICI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Today's Via Cassia does not corrispond, in the Tuscan section, to the ancient Roman road and not even to Via Francigena, the mediaeval trail that ran along the Valdelsa valley.
		Since Via Cassia passes through many urban centres and is at times rather congested with traffic, the hurried tourist may choose to take the Florence-Siena Autostrada that can be abandoned whenever one wishes to visit one of the proposed locations.
		Just out of Tavarnelle, after leaving Via Cassia, one reaches Morrocco where it is possible to visit the church of S. Maria del Carmine, built in the 1400's and then largely remodelled.
	www.firenze.turismo.toscana.it /apteng/itinerari/chianticassia.html (1015 words)

	Portale Guseppe Verdi Ing \| Verdi land \| The Francigena way
		One of the oldest pilgrims' trips was that annotated in a travel diary by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sigerico, in 990-94 on the road known as the Via Francigena or Via Romea, names indicating one, the departing place, and the other, the destination.
		The Tuscan-Emilian part of the Via Francigena was for centuries the easiest and most frequented route, a bridge between central Europe and Christianity's holy places.
		From two different starting points, Fidenza and San Pancrazio, Via Francigena becomes one road at the little town of Fornovo di Taro, leading to the Cisa pass in the Apennines, and from here, crossing the Lunigiana to reach the Tyrrhenian Sea.
	www.giuseppeverdi.it /inglese/page.asp?IDCategoria=165&IDSezione=733 (326 words)

	Parks and nature in Tuscany
		Once it was an intersection point along one of the main communication arteries: the Via Francigena, that road which crossing through half of Europe from Santiago De Compostela took to Rome.
		The via Francigena, which then crossed the centre of town, touching Poggio Salamartano and the current Complesso Corsini, where the Salamarzana Castle rose.
		The last bit of the via Francigena in the Fucecchio territory is in a place called Galleno.
	www.waytuscany.net /rooten/146_847.htm (315 words)

	- V I A F R A N C I G E N A - Pilgerweg - Frankenweg - Jakobsweg und Via Francigena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The revival of the via francigena brings together one of the oldest spiritual symbols in Europe — the cross.
		The Via Francigena is unknown and rarely walked.
		Via Francigena should not only be a road into the past, but the spiritual way into the future.
	www.via-francigena.com /1_Englisch/1philosophie/jakobsweg_Frankenweg_e.html (329 words)

	Via Francigena
		The route is generally referred to as the Via Francigena (the route of the French/Franks) or the Via Romea (the road to Rome).
		In 1996 the Via Francigena was designated by the Council of Europe as a 'European Cultural Itinerary'.
		Information about the international conference The Via Francigena - an ancient path at the dawn of the new Europe held at the Campidoglio in Rome on 19 May 2004.
	www.canterbury.gov.uk /cgi-bin/buildpage.pl?mysql=1218 (326 words)

	proto dettaglio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		VIA FRANCIGENA IN PIACENZA AND ITS PROVINCE The Pilgrims who followed the Via Romea from Pavia stopped at the ancient church or Pieve of Olubra, round which the town of Castel San Giovanni has developed.
		The importance of this area is due to the fact that important roads crossed here: the Via Romea, the Via Postumia and the road leading up the Tidone Valley.Traffic of both men and goods was heavy.
		Beyond Piacenza, the Via Francigena coincides with the Via Emilia for several kilometres from this point and passes through Pontenure, Cadeo, Fontanafredda, Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Castell'arquato, Lugagnano, Velleia, Vernasca, Castelletto e Morfasso.
	www.provincia.piacenza.it /ar5/img/eng_ver/noti/936.htm (137 words)

	A Pilgrim's Way: Montefiascone
		This section dedicated to Via Francigena ends here but you can continue your journey towards Rome by visiting Viterbo, Capranica, Sutri and Monterosi; you will cross the Tiber at Ponte Milvio and make your entrance into Rome through Porta del Popolo.
		Via Appia Antica from Cecilia Metella to Torre in Selci
		Via Appia Antica from Torre in Selci to Frattocchie
	www.romeartlover.it /Francige3.html (754 words)

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