Camino Photo of the Day: Looking Up in Rocamadour
It’s difficult to capture the sheer otherworldliness of Rocamadour in photographs. This is a view looking up from the main medieval street of the town. There are additional levels of the town clinging to the cliffs above. I can’t even imagine what it took to build this. Time to find another set of stairs!
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.
