{"id":17544,"date":"2024-04-30T12:10:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=17544"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:10:35","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-welcome-to-occitanie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-welcome-to-occitanie\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Welcome to Occitanie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">J<\/span>ust past the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-unexpected-graces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chapelle de Saint-Roch<\/a>, the Camino heads back to a pretty major road for a short bit. This is where I saw this sign, welcoming me to the administrative region of <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occitanie_(r%C3%A9gion_administrative)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Occitanie<\/a>. It is one of two major regions in France named after the old Duchy of Aquitaine<span id='easy-footnote-1-17544' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-welcome-to-occitanie\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-17544' title='The other is, of course, &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nouvelle-Aquitaine&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;Nouvelle-Aquitaine&lt;\/a&gt;. One is named after the Occitan name for the region, and the other for the French. I will duck in and out of these two regions for the remainder of my walk in France.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. The symbol of the region is based on the old arms of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_of_Toulouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Counts of Tolouse<\/a>, who ruled this area once upon a time. <\/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\/04\/53378687755_7f4834b128_4k-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378687755_7f4834b128_4k-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378687755_7f4834b128_4k-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378687755_7f4834b128_4k-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378687755_7f4834b128_4k-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378687755_7f4834b128_4k-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378687755_7f4834b128_4k-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>21 August 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> just past Chapelle de Saint-Roch, Loz\u00e8re D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, 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-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"961\" height=\"613\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-04.png 961w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-04-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-04-150x96.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-04-768x490.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/figure>\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\/2024\/04\/VP-arrow-05-Aumont-Aubrac-1024x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-arrow-05-Aumont-Aubrac-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-arrow-05-Aumont-Aubrac-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-arrow-05-Aumont-Aubrac-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-arrow-05-Aumont-Aubrac-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-arrow-05-Aumont-Aubrac-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VP-arrow-05-Aumont-Aubrac-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just past the Chapelle de Saint-Roch, the Camino heads back to a pretty major road for a short bit. This is where I saw this sign, welcoming me to the administrative region of Occitanie. It is one of two major regions in France named after the old Duchy of Aquitaine. The symbol of the region is based on the old [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2023","category-via-podiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544","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=17544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17548,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions\/17548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}