{"id":19517,"date":"2025-12-02T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19517"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:55:07","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-the-grotto-of-the-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-the-grotto-of-the-tomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: the Grotto of the Tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

R<\/span>ocamadour’s Stations of the Cross end at this grotto, which contains a life-sized sculpture of Christ being laid into the tomb. I’m posting two photos today, one of the approach and one of the actual sculpture. Hopefully, from this, you can get a feel for the immensity and power of this final station, very near to the top of the cliff. Sadly, the gates were closed when I was there, so I wasn’t able to get close to the scene.<\/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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