{"id":19623,"date":"2025-12-29T11:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19623"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:36:34","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-temptation-and-statuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-temptation-and-statuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Temptation and Statuary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A<\/span>bout 1:30 PM, I passed through the outskirts of the village of Montfaucon. I seriously considered calling it a day here, but I realized that tomorrow me would not be very happy with that decision. And then I saw the bizarre sculptures in the gardens of several of the houses here and figured that, with just 5.5 km to go, I definitely<\/em> needed to push on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>02 September 2023
Place:<\/strong> between Rocamadour and Labastide-Murat, 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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