{"id":17212,"date":"2024-01-16T09:40:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=17212"},"modified":"2024-01-16T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:40:51","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-halfway-up-the-needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-halfway-up-the-needle\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Halfway Up the Needle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s a steep 268 steps up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89glise_Saint-Michel_d%27Aiguilhe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">church of Saint Michel d&#8217;Aiguilhe<\/a>. It&#8217;s dizzying, and the views are tremendous. Here you can see some folks gingerly climbing down, back to the city. In addition to the church on the top of the needle, there were three chapels, a monastery, and a garden at various points as you climbed up. Most of these are gone now, the victims of time and revolution. There is a great little museum and gift shop at the base of the needle, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53315266428_e478de7001_4k-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53315266428_e478de7001_4k-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53315266428_e478de7001_4k-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53315266428_e478de7001_4k-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53315266428_e478de7001_4k-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53315266428_e478de7001_4k-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>17 August 2023 <br><strong>Place: <\/strong>Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire D\u00e9partement, Region of Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, France <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"437\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-1024x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a steep 268 steps up to the church of Saint Michel d&#8217;Aiguilhe. It&#8217;s dizzying, and the views are tremendous. Here you can see some folks gingerly climbing down, back to the city. In addition to the church on the top of the needle, there were three chapels, a monastery, and a garden at various points as you climbed up. 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