{"id":17868,"date":"2024-07-31T12:54:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T19:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=17868"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T19:54:20","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-croix-occitane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-croix-occitane\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Croix Occitane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

L<\/span>et’s take a moment to examine this Camino sign in the village of Saint-C\u00f4me-d’Olt. The symbols in the upper corners are the traditional drinking gourd of the pilgrim and the snail with its shell, perhaps a symbol of the pilgrims themselves with their slow pace and backpack. The shell is of course a symbol of Saint James and of the pilgrimage to Santiago. Instead of the traditional Saint James cross<\/a>, however, we instead have a very different cross. This is the Occitan Cross<\/a><\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, which gained its popularity as the medieval symbol of the Counts of Toulouse<\/a>. These days variations of the symbol are used by both the French cultural region of Occitania<\/a> and the somewhat smaller administrative region<\/a> of the same name, as well as many d\u00e9partements and villages within the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>24 August 2023
Place:<\/strong> Saint-C\u00f4me-d’Olt, Aveyron D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re the sort who looks at the maps, you’ll note that the stage shown is 32+km long. I split this up into two days, since I wanted to spend some time exploring both Saint-Ch\u00e9ly-d’Aubrac and Saint-C\u00f4me-d’Olt, both of which are on the list of most beautiful villages in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s take a moment to examine this Camino sign in the village of Saint-C\u00f4me-d’Olt. The symbols in the upper corners are the traditional drinking gourd of the pilgrim and the snail with its shell, perhaps a symbol of the pilgrims themselves with their slow pace and backpack. The shell is of course a symbol of Saint James and of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17868","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\/17868","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=17868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17872,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868\/revisions\/17872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}