📍 Conques-en-Rouergue
Randonnée Conques - Le chemin de Dadon
The history of Conques goes back at least to the 8th century when the hermit Dadon retired to this wild place.
He started a community of Benedictine monks. Two facts explain the influence of this abbey in medieval Christianity:
- around the year 866, the arrival of the relics of Saint Foy, a young martyr from Agen, whose miracles would continue to attract the faithful;
- from the XIᵉ century, Conques became for pilgrims leaving for Santiago de Compostela, a major stopover on the road to Puy-en-Velay (via podiensis) .
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