{"id":18002,"date":"2024-09-04T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=18002"},"modified":"2024-09-04T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T20:27:07","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-the-hidden-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-the-hidden-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: the Hidden Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span> passed through a narrow little door &#8211; so narrow that I scraped a hole in my backpack&#8217;s rain cover &#8211; and climbed up a winding and impossibly steep set of stairs. Finally, I came to the treasure of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89glise_Saint-Pierre_de_Bessu%C3%A9jouls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00c9glise Saint-Pierre de Bessu\u00e9jouls<\/a>. This purely Romanesque chapel is located halfway up the church bell tower. It&#8217;s an amazing place. The interior carvings are absolutely exquisite, and there are little hidden details everywhere you look. I suppose you could argue that the chapel itself is a hidden detail! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It measures approximately six meters on each side and seven to eight meters high.\u00a0The dimensions and the way the space is arranged makes it difficult to get a photo of the whole space. I spent some time praying here, and I also took a <em>lot<\/em> of photos. <\/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\/09\/53378337998_2a1279eeb9_4k-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53378337998_2a1279eeb9_4k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53378337998_2a1279eeb9_4k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53378337998_2a1279eeb9_4k-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53378337998_2a1279eeb9_4k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53378337998_2a1279eeb9_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> Bessu\u00e9jouis, 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>I passed through a narrow little door &#8211; so narrow that I scraped a hole in my backpack&#8217;s rain cover &#8211; and climbed up a winding and impossibly steep set of stairs. Finally, I came to the treasure of the \u00c9glise Saint-Pierre de Bessu\u00e9jouls. This purely Romanesque chapel is located halfway up the church bell tower. It&#8217;s an amazing place. 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