{"id":13532,"date":"2022-12-16T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=13532"},"modified":"2023-02-07T13:17:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:17:55","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-ancient-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-ancient-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Ancient Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he forests of Galicia feel ancient, and humans have trod these forest paths for hundreds of thousands of years<span id='easy-footnote-1-13532' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-ancient-ways\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-13532' title='&amp;#8220;The oldest attestation of human presence in Galicia has been found in the Eir\u00f3s Cave, in the municipality of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triacastela&quot;&gt;Triacastela&lt;\/a&gt;, which has preserved animal remains and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neanderthal&quot;&gt;Neanderthal&lt;\/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;stone objects from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Paleolithic&quot;&gt;Middle Paleolithic&lt;\/a&gt;. (&lt;a rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot; href=&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galicia_(Spain)#History&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;source&lt;\/a&gt;)'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. The routes of some of the paths and roads the Camino follows are far older than the Camino itself. While pilgrims have stamped <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-holloway\/\" target=\"_blank\">holloways<\/a> on the Way, something that can be accomplished in mere centuries, sometimes you see something like this cut through the stony hills and realize that this particular path is far older still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-765x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-1147x1536.jpg 1147w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-1529x2048.jpg 1529w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-560x750.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-260x348.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k-160x214.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/14011915802_957f3b3f44_3k.jpg 1742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-castillo-de-sarracin\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k\/\"><\/a><strong>Date:<\/strong> 26 April 2013<strong><br>Place:<\/strong> somewhere between Triacastela and Samos (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)<br><strong>Today started:<\/strong> Fonfr\u00eda (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\" id=\"block-504ee084-3f25-44ca-a84e-cc2407034f76\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Camino-Map-Cathedral-Cities-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Camino-Map-Cathedral-Cities-1024x627.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forests of Galicia feel ancient, and humans have trod these forest paths for hundreds of thousands of years. The routes of some of the paths and roads the Camino follows are far older than the Camino itself. While pilgrims have stamped holloways on the Way, something that can be accomplished in mere centuries, sometimes you see something like this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13723,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions\/13723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}