Chemin des Bonshommes – the Path of the Good Men
Foix / Montségur → Berga (Catalonia) · approx. 200 km
- Distance
- approx. 200 km
- Days
- 8–10 days
- Route
- Foix / Montségur → Berga (Catalonia)
Follows the paths the Cathars – the Good Men – used when they fled the Inquisition across the Pyrenees to Catalonia in the 13th and 14th centuries. The trail runs from Montségur and Foix via Ax-les-Thermes and Mérens, crosses the border at Puymorens and continues through the Cerdanya and the Serra del Cadí to the sanctuary of Queralt above Berga.
TipsJune–September. Some stages are long and in high mountains – book the mountain huts. The trail is waymarked as GR 107 on both sides.
Along the trail in the guide
Long-distance trails
- GR 10 – the Pyrenees on the French sideapprox. 900 km · 50–60 days
- GR 11 – Senda Pirenaica on the Spanish sideapprox. 820 km · 40–50 days
- HRP – Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenneapprox. 800 km · 40–45 days
- Sentier Cathare – the Cathar Trailapprox. 250 km · 12 days
- Via Podiensis – from Le Puy to the Pyreneesapprox. 740 km · 30–35 days
- Camino Francés – across the Pyrenees to Santiagoapprox. 770 km · 30–35 days
- Via Tolosana – from Arles over the Somportapprox. 800 km · 35–40 days
- Camino Aragonés – from the Somport to Puente la Reinaapprox. 165 km · 6–7 days
- The Piémont route – along the foot of the Pyreneesapprox. 600 km · 25–30 days