Grandia II lost stage?

In the end of the stage St. Heim's Mountains, Halfway Up, right before you arrive at St. Heim Papal State, there is a mysterious door which you cannot open. Further, you can see a stepped road.

Many people thought it was an entry for a lost stage, possibly a bonus one. A stage the Grandia team could not include in the final game, not because of time (the game was not rushed), but because of disk space (it is known that they ran out of disk space, and they had to decrease the FMV quality because of that).

However, this is not true. Grandia II is a perfectly finished game and does not have any lost stages. That door with the road is actually the entrance to Pylgrim Road.

Pylgrim road is the stage before Raul Hills. After leaving St. Heim's Papal State, the party decides to head to Cyrum Kingdom. For that, they need to get to Raul Hills and cross the ruin maze. Between St. Heim's Papal State and Raul Hills, there is Pylgrim Road, a road made to make it easier for believers to go to St. Heim's to pray. To access that road, the party went a few meters back, to St. Heim's Mountains, and entered the door. (It is not that you cannot open the door, it is that they do not needed to use it and the game did not allow you to open it.)

Not only the door is built with the same stone color and architectonic style as Pylgrim Road, but you can see, behind it, that there is a stepped road (just what Pylgrim Road is). On further examination of the path behind that door, you can see jewels inside rectangles carved in the walls for decoration. These accompany you all the way through Pylgrim Road.

Therefore, that door leads to Pylgrim Road, and there is no lost stage in Grandia II.

It is probable that developers thought of making you go back to St. Heim's Mountains and enter the door to access Pylgrim Road, but then they saw it might be confusing, and decided to make a direct entrance to the road. Inside, you cannot see the door. It would have been nice to put it so you can see where did you come from, but the door is not there because in the original design, if you went backwards, you should have ended in the part of the road that is visible in St. Heim's Mountains.