{"id":18934,"date":"2025-04-11T13:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=18934"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:37:36","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-closed-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-closed-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Closed Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

O<\/span>n the way out of Figeac, I attempted to visit the church of Saint Thomas, but it was locked up tight. This was one of the few locked churches I encountered in France. After this, it was much easier to find the route markings, which was just as well because I had run off the edge of the paper map I got from the tourism office the day before. In no time at all, the Camino made a sudden transition from urban to rural. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>30 August 2023
Place:<\/strong> Figeac, Lot D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The site I’ve been using for my daily maps, Gronze.com<\/a>, while otherwise great, unfortunately doesn’t have maps for this variant. So here’s a map from my book Practical Pilgrimage<\/em><\/a> showing the entirety of the three main variants and larger sub-variants. I walked the GR6 from Figeac to Rocamadour and the GR46 on to Cahors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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