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City of Rome (in English or Italian)

The city is expecting 25 million visitors during the year 2000

The 'Via Francigena'
An Alternative Pilgrim Route to Rome for the Jubilee in 2000

The Via Francigena or Via Romea was first documented in 990 by Sigeric, Archbishop of Canterbury, in his Diary describing 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 travelling back and forth from the north of Europe to Rome and Jerusalem carrying ideas as well as money and produce. These people travelled on foot, or on mules and horses, rarely by cart as the conditions of the road varied continually.

Read the as pilgrims have for centuries.

 

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The starts in Greenwich Park every Spring.

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