A thousand-year-old route of transhumance and exchanges, lined with "montjoies", piles of stones serving as landmarks, but also with dolmens and rock inscriptions, also the road of the Arvernes taken by Caesar to cross the Cevennes, the Regordane path, 240 km long, links Puy-en-Velay to Saint Gilles-du-Gard.
It crossed the Cevennes and linked the Mediterranean to Puy-en-Velay, passing through Nîmes. Its existence is attested as early as the 12th century in the Chanson de Geste : " Le Charroi de Nîmes ".
Also called the Saint-Gilles road, it is at the same time a sacred road punctuated with catholic sites which leads pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, an epic road where all the fights which marked the history of the region took place, as well as a trade road used by the muleteers carrying goods from Languedoc to Le Puy
It is probably an agreement between the bishop of Mende and the lord of Anduze, whose domain was crossed by the Chemin de Régordane, which decided the implantation of a "castrum" or fortified village in the heart of this sandstone plateau, at an altitude of nearly 900 meters, also crossed by the Chemin de Régordane. This fortified village during the 12th and 13th centuries was called "La Guarda", La Garde.
The Régordane path has inspired many authors. Let us quote one of the oldest songs of Geste, "the carriage of Nimes", in the 12th century, the marquis of La Fayette, Guillaume d'Orange, Sergueï Prokofiev, Alphonse Daudet, Coco Chanel or still the journalist writer and Cevennes filmmaker Jean Pierre Chabrol, Jean Cavalier the camisard chief and so many others...
Today it has become a long-distance hiking route, GR700.
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