{"id":19163,"date":"2025-09-09T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19163"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:40:15","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-castle-on-the-outside-church-on-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-castle-on-the-outside-church-on-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Castle on the Outside, Church on the Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">W<\/span>alking into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-entering-rudelle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">castle in Rudelle<\/a>, you would be forgiven for wondering how you suddenly teleported into a Gothic church. The history of this building is complicated. Rudelle was once a fortified village &#8211; a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bastide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bastide<\/a> founded about 1250 &#8211; and this particular building was the hospital chapel, dating to the second half of the 13th century. It was not originally fortified. The fortifications (and the second floor) were added about a century later, during the Hundred Years&#8217; War. Around 1470 or so, it became the village parish church under the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Martial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saint-Martial<\/a>. Seems appropriate. The church was significantly restored at the turn of the 20th century, and it seem that another restoration is planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/53333189440_1f46205950_4k-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/53333189440_1f46205950_4k-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/53333189440_1f46205950_4k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/53333189440_1f46205950_4k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/53333189440_1f46205950_4k-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/53333189440_1f46205950_4k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/53333189440_1f46205950_4k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/53333189440_1f46205950_4k-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>31 August 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Rudelle, between Lacapelle-Marival and Gramat, 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The site I&#8217;ve been using for my daily maps, <a href=\"http:\/\/Gronze.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"Gronze.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gronze.com<\/a>, while otherwise great, unfortunately doesn&#8217;t have maps for this variant. So here&#8217;s a map from my book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/practical-pilgrimage-now-available\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/practical-pilgrimage-now-available\/\"><em>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<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2122\" height=\"1490\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3.jpg 2122w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-1536x1079.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-2048x1438.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2122px) 100vw, 2122px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1092\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-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>Walking into the castle in Rudelle, you would be forgiven for wondering how you suddenly teleported into a Gothic church. The history of this building is complicated. Rudelle was once a fortified village &#8211; a bastide founded about 1250 &#8211; and this particular building was the hospital chapel, dating to the second half of the 13th century. It was not [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19163","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\/19163","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=19163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19167,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions\/19167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}