{"id":18845,"date":"2025-03-19T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=18845"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:51:58","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-turreted-tobacconist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-turreted-tobacconist\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Turreted Tobacconist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">F<\/span>igeac is an ancient settlement; that much is clear. Exactly when this area was first settled is a bit of a mystery. Evidence of humans here dates as far back as the Middle Neolithic. The Gauls had settlements in the area, if not exactly on this site. A Roman road crossed the river here, but evidence for permanent habitation is disputed. What is undisputed is that the Franks established a monastery at this site in 753, and Pope Stephen II himself dedicated the church two years later. It was a thriving Medieval settlement, and this might be why you see things like this in the city: a tobacconist\/bar\/caf\u00e9 with a stone turret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/53332771716_a7ae728370_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18846\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>29 August 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Figeac, Lot 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=\"959\" height=\"619\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-12.png 959w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-12-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-12-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-12-768x496.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1092\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-arrow-13-Figeac-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-arrow-13-Figeac-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-arrow-13-Figeac-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-arrow-13-Figeac-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-arrow-13-Figeac-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-arrow-13-Figeac-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-arrow-13-Figeac-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VP-arrow-13-Figeac-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figeac is an ancient settlement; that much is clear. Exactly when this area was first settled is a bit of a mystery. Evidence of humans here dates as far back as the Middle Neolithic. The Gauls had settlements in the area, if not exactly on this site. A Roman road crossed the river here, but evidence for permanent habitation is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18845","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\/18845","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=18845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18850,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845\/revisions\/18850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}