Camino Photo of the Day: L’Hôpital

The village of L’Hôpital once contained a major medieval pilgrim hostel – you can see it in the name – but thanks to the Revolution, of this there is no remaining trace. Here, we took a diversion from the diversion to take a slight shortcut and follow the historic pilgrimage route. We were also hoping to spot some of the prehistoric dolmens that litter this area.

Date: 31 August 2023
Place: L’Hôpital, between Lacapelle-Marival and Gramat, 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.