{"id":19469,"date":"2025-11-20T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19469"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:59:01","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-sailing-away-on-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-sailing-away-on-a-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Sailing away on a Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span> mentioned yesterday<\/a> that the organ in the Basilica of the Holy Saviour in Rocamadour is shaped like a ship. Well, here it is. You can see the wooden hull under the pipes, and the designs in the frame are meant to suggest sails. I can almost see it if I squint. You can also see that the back wall of the basilica is just the cliff face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>01 September 2023
Place:<\/strong> Rocamadour, 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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