{"id":18258,"date":"2024-10-31T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=18258"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:58:31","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-the-cross-of-golinhac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-the-cross-of-golinhac\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: the Cross of Golinhac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>lthough not as common in France as in Spain (I blame the Revolution), these roadside crosses were ubiquitous in the Medieval and early Modern eras. They were used as everything from boundary markers to meeting places to places of judicial summons to roadside shrines. This particular example is a 21st century copy of the 15th century original, which is now housed in the local church. This cross is located where the Camino enters the central hub of the village of Golinhac. It includes a depiction of a pilgrim &#8211; or perhaps Saint James himself &#8211; as a sign to pilgrims that they were still on the right road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/53377999591_9b2b1cef73_4k-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/53377999591_9b2b1cef73_4k-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/53377999591_9b2b1cef73_4k-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/53377999591_9b2b1cef73_4k-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/53377999591_9b2b1cef73_4k-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/53377999591_9b2b1cef73_4k-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>26 August 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Golinhac, 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=\"962\" height=\"698\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-09.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-09.png 962w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-09-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-09-150x109.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-09-768x557.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/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\/10\/VP-arrow-10-Espeyrac-1024x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-arrow-10-Espeyrac-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-arrow-10-Espeyrac-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-arrow-10-Espeyrac-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-arrow-10-Espeyrac-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-arrow-10-Espeyrac-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/VP-arrow-10-Espeyrac-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although not as common in France as in Spain (I blame the Revolution), these roadside crosses were ubiquitous in the Medieval and early Modern eras. They were used as everything from boundary markers to meeting places to places of judicial summons to roadside shrines. This particular example is a 21st century copy of the 15th century original, which is now [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18258","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\/18258","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=18258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18261,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258\/revisions\/18261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}