{"id":18951,"date":"2025-04-16T10:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=18951"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:21:55","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-entering-cardaillac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-entering-cardaillac\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Entering Cardaillac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A<\/span>fter about an hour of walking, I entered the village of Cardaillac, or possibly Cardalhac<\/em> in Occitan. This place is built around a castle – photo to come – and dates back to the 8th century. It is named after the Cardaillac family, which traces its origin to a fellow named Bertand de Cardaillac. By the 11th century, the Cardaillacs were powerful landowners in the region, owning some 22 villages. By the 14th century, they were split into five different branches of the family, sometimes at odds with each other. Most of these branches had died out by the sixteenth century. The last of the Cardaillacs, Thomas Jean-Baptiste II, Marquis of Lacapelle, sold the remaining titles and lands in 1732 to pay off his considerable debts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>30 August 2023
Place:<\/strong> between Figeac and Lacapelle-Marival, 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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