In the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson | Stage 2 from Nemours to Château-Landon
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In the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson
Stage 2: from Nemours to Château-Landon
Stage 2: from Nemours to Château-Landon
From 1875 onwards, Robert Louis Stevenson, who was only 25 years old and had not yet become the world-famous writer, left his native Scotland more and more frequently in search of climates more conducive to soothing his respiratory pains. He frequented the artists' colony of Barbizon, came to Marlotte and especially spent long periods at the Chevillon boarding house in Grez-sur-Loing where he met Fanny Osbourne, the love of his life. His stays in the Gâtinais were punctuated by trips, by canoe between Antwerp and Pontoise, with the donkey Modestine in the Cévennes and along the Loing to Châtillon-sur-Loire.
In most of the places crossed by Stevenson, associations have been created to recall the writer's passage, to promote a gentle form of tourism in which encounters and the discovery of the countryside take precedence over haste, and to combine physical and cultural activities in the service of territorial development.
In 2015, the Council of Europe awarded this project the title of European Cultural Route, thus creating the 33rd cultural route, the first being the Camino de Compostela.
The route from Barbizon to Grez-sur-Loing, and from Grez to Châtillon-sur-Loire is a part of this vast itinerary of more than 1000 kilometres, other sections of which include the Scottish Highlands, the city of Bristol, the Northern canals from Antwerp to Pontoise via Brussels and the Thiérache, and the paths of the Cévennes.
So, on foot, by bike or with a donkey, have a good walk in the footsteps of Robert-Louis Stevenson.
In the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson
Stage 2: from Nemours to Château-Landon
From 1875 onwards, Robert Louis Stevenson, who was only 25 years old and had not yet become the world-famous writer, left his native Scotland more and more frequently in search of climates more conducive to soothing his respiratory pains. He frequented the artists' colony of Barbizon, came to Marlotte and especially spent long periods at the Chevillon boarding house in Grez-sur-Loing where he met Fanny Osbourne, the love of his life. His stays in the Gâtinais were punctuated by trips, by canoe between Antwerp and Pontoise, with the donkey Modestine in the Cévennes and along the Loing to Châtillon-sur-Loire.
In most of the places crossed by Stevenson, associations have been created to recall the writer's passage, to promote a gentle form of tourism in which encounters and the discovery of the countryside take precedence over haste, and to combine physical and cultural activities in the service of territorial development.
In 2015, the Council of Europe awarded this project the title of European Cultural Route, thus creating the 33rd cultural route, the first being the Camino de Compostela.
The route from Barbizon to Grez-sur-Loing, and from Grez to Châtillon-sur-Loire is a part of this vast itinerary of more than 1000 kilometres, other sections of which include the Scottish Highlands, the city of Bristol, the Northern canals from Antwerp to Pontoise via Brussels and the Thiérache, and the paths of the Cévennes.
So, on foot, by bike or with a donkey, have a good walk in the footsteps of Robert-Louis Stevenson.
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