Camino Photo of the Day: the First View of Rocamadour

The Alzou Gorge trail ended in a parking lot, which was something of an anticlimax. And then, as I walked into the field beyond, I caught my first view of Rocamadour. It was like something straight out of Tolkien – something of a theme today. It didn’t look possible: a town carved out of and built into a sheer cliff. The sight of it stopped me in my tracks. It was only 11 in the morning, and this was my intended stopping point, so I would have plenty of time to explore, just as soon as I figured out how to get up there. It turned out to be even more amazing than I suspected.

Date: 01 September 2023
Place: approaching 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.