The Spanish Road

The Spanish Road






On August 22, 1567 the Duke of Alba reached Brussels. All Europe breathed relieved, at least for a while. They had been forty days in which the continent's most important courts had held his breath as they received news of the advance of 10,000 men who left Milan weapons bound for Flanders. Best of the Spanish monarchy had conjured for the journey is ended successfully and smoothly.
The best engineers, the best time logistics, most skilled diplomats, captains top rated, leading governors, more experienced soldiers, even the Pope's blessing. All necessary springs were moved by Felipe II to implement a permanent ground logistical corridor connecting two strategic points of the monarchy (Milan and Brussels) that were far including more than a thousand kilometers. All that managed over a thousand miles away from the actual theater of operations. A communications triangle only be able to maintain Empire.


The most popular route starts in the Milanese, runs through Savoy, Franche-Comté, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Liège and ends in Flanders. The route was changed over time and geopolitical situations. While open "Le chemin des espagnols" as the locals called it, transited various territories. Also the Swiss cantons, the Palatinate, Alsace, Tyrol, even by the German Rhine. Today, the Spanish Road, branches into a vast network of trails through Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany.
Throughout his decades of existence was changing its course to form a network of trails all forming "The Spanish Way". The relevance of this route is that it largely current borders of Europe were developed and then their existence. El Camino Spanish born in the Mediterranean and ends in the heart of Europe, crossing the Alps, traveling places and places of unique beauty, sometimes thousands of paths traveled by Spanish from another era and we want to recover Walker enjoy today.

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