Camino Photo of the Day: Fossils in the Stairs
The town of Rocamadour is carved out of the great limestone cliffs overlooking the Alzou valley. And where there’s limestone, there’s fossils! You can see them most clearly in the many steep staircases, carved out of the living rock. It’s utterly delightful, particularly these shells which, if you squint, resemble those of Saint James.
Date: 01 September 2023
Place: Rocamadour, Lot Département, Region of Occitanie, France
Maps!
The site I’ve been using for my daily maps, Gronze.com, while otherwise great, unfortunately doesn’t have maps for this variant. So here’s a map from my book Practical Pilgrimage showing the entirety of the three main variants and larger sub-variants. I walked the GR6 from Figeac to Rocamadour and the GR46 on to Cahors.
