The Path to Rome

<p><strong><em>The Path to Rome</em></strong> (1902) by <strong>Hilaire Belloc</strong> is a travel memoir recounting Belloc's walking pilgrimage from central France across the Alps to Rome. Blending geography history politics and personal reflection the book captures his joy in physical exertion encounters with ordinary people and deep attachment to Catholic Europe. Along the way Belloc digresses freely-on roads rivers faith and civilization-using the journey as a lens to reflect on the spiritual and cultural unity of Europe culminating in Rome as both a physical destination and a symbolic center of Western Christendom.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>