{"id":17977,"date":"2024-08-28T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=17977"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T22:24:54","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-palais-de-justice-despalion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-palais-de-justice-despalion\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Palais de justice d&#8217;Espalion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>his iconic view of the town of Espalion features a view of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palais_de_justice_d%27Espalion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palais de Justice d&#8217;Espalion<\/a> (courthouse) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pont_Vieux_(Espalion)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pont Vieux<\/a> (lit. &#8220;old bridge&#8221;) over the River Lot. The courthouse dates to 1572 and has served a variety of governmental and defensive functions over the centuries. It was converted into an\u00a0artists&#8217; residence\u00a0in 1992. The first bridge on this site is attributed to the reign of Charlemagne, about 780, although the oldest confirmed record of it is in the 11th century. Portions of the current bridge probably date back to the 13th century, and it once had houses and substantial fortifications built atop it. The last of these were cleared away in 18th century.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/53378537430_3750bb1512_4k-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/53378537430_3750bb1512_4k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/53378537430_3750bb1512_4k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/53378537430_3750bb1512_4k-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/53378537430_3750bb1512_4k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/53378537430_3750bb1512_4k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>25 August 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Espalion, Aveyron 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=\"955\" height=\"597\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-08.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-08.png 955w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-08-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-08-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-08-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 955px) 100vw, 955px\" \/><\/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\/08\/VP-arrow-09-Estaing-1024x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-arrow-09-Estaing-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-arrow-09-Estaing-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-arrow-09-Estaing-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-arrow-09-Estaing-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-arrow-09-Estaing-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/VP-arrow-09-Estaing-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This iconic view of the town of Espalion features a view of the Palais de Justice d&#8217;Espalion (courthouse) and the Pont Vieux (lit. &#8220;old bridge&#8221;) over the River Lot. The courthouse dates to 1572 and has served a variety of governmental and defensive functions over the centuries. It was converted into an\u00a0artists&#8217; residence\u00a0in 1992. The first bridge on this site [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liminal-space","category-photo-of-the-day-2023","category-via-podiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977","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=17977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17982,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977\/revisions\/17982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}