Sentier Walter Benjamin
On the trail of Walter Benjamin, writer-philosopher fleeing the Vichy regime in 1940.
- 💧 6 drinking water points mapped on the route (OpenStreetMap)
At a glance
15.2 km round trip starting from Banyuls-sur-Mer station, 8 minutes' walk from the platform. Allow 5h24 of walking, 810 m of ascent, estimated difficulty: hard. 6 drinking water points are mapped on the route.
Description provided by Geotrek PyMed (Pyrenees-Mediterranee); the rest is a summary generated from the route data.
Getting there by train and bus
This route links two stations: you can walk it in either direction, without coming back to where you started.
- Banyuls-sur-Mer station start · 8 min walk (walking time measured on the IGN footpath network)
- Banyuls-sur-Mer - Les Elmes bus stop start · 15 min walk (walking time measured on the IGN footpath network)
Travel time from the main stations
- Toulouse Matabiau 2h43 by train
- Montpellier Saint-Roch 2h28 by train
- Nîmes 3h07 by train
- Perpignan 28 min by train
- Béziers 1h39 by train
- Carcassonne 1h59 by train
Indicative times from SNCF GTFS data. Actual times, there and back, are worked out on the interactive map.
Other hikes from Banyuls-sur-Mer
Data source
Data produced by Geotrek PyMed (Pyrenees-Mediterranee), updated on 4 February 2026
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