A guidebook to walking the final section of the Via Francigena pilgrimage. Part of a four-volume set, this volume covers the 940km historic route from Rome to Santa Maria di Leuca in Puglia.

The route is presented in 52 stages of 9 to 30km (619 miles), including alternative routes, with information on facilities and pilgrim hostels. Suitable for most abilities.

• 1:100,000 maps and profiles included for each stage
• GPX files available to download
• Handy route summary tables help you plan your itinerary
• Refreshment and accommodation information given for each trek stage
• Advice on planning and preparation

Autorentext
Sanford 'Sandy' Brown is a community activist, long-distance walker and ordained minister from Seattle, Washington. Inspired by The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho, he trekked the Camino de Santiago in 2008 and since then has walked or biked over 18,000km on pilgrim trails in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy and the United States. He leads group pilgrimage treks through his travel company, www.pilgrimpaths.com. Sandy earned his undergraduate degree in medieval history at the University of Washington in Seattle, his MDiv at Garrett Theological Seminary, which honored him in 2006 as a Distinguished Alumnus, and in 1997 earned a doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary in gender, sexuality and spirituality. In 2023 the European Association of Via Francigena Ways bestowed its Honor Award on Sandy for his contributions to the development of the route. He has two grown sons and lives with his wife, Theresa Elliott, in Lucca, Italy.Nicole Bukaty is a secondary school French and Spanish teacher in Perthshire, Scotland. Originally from Kraków, Poland, she grew up in London and France, and has lived in Colombia, Spain and Russia. She has a BA Joint Honours degree in Philosophy and Hispanic Studies and an MA in Philosophy, both from King's College, London. She obsessively uses up her holidays and weekends to hike mountains or take on long-distance walks, totalling about 9000km so far, predominantly on pilgrim routes. She has even completed 450km all on asphalt from her mother's house in Ilawa, Poland, to the Polish monastery of Jasna Góra in Czestochowa. She is the author of the Vía de la Plata and Camino Sanabrés guidebook, 15 Short Walks Perthshire North guidebook, and co-author of the Via Francigena Part 4 guidebook for Cicerone. Her next project is a guidebook to the Gudbrandsdalsleden St Olav Way hike in Norway.