{"id":19798,"date":"2026-02-16T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19798"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:16:00","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-the-two-domes-of-cahors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-the-two-domes-of-cahors\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: the Two Domes of Cahors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Cath\u00e9drale Saint-\u00c9tienne de Cahors is an absolute wonder. Medieval paintings decorate many of the walls and columns. The architecture itself is early Gothic, with an overlay of Byzantine elements. I\u2019ve never seen anything quite like it.\u00a0It has domes amid the Gothic: one is decorated with 14th-century frescoes depicting the stoning of Saint Stephen, as well as eight prophets. The other has no decoration at all, but an electronic system projects images on it in slow rotation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53333067210_ea0d6045f4_4k-copy-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53333067210_ea0d6045f4_4k-copy-scaled.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53333067210_ea0d6045f4_4k-copy-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53333067210_ea0d6045f4_4k-copy-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53333067210_ea0d6045f4_4k-copy-113x150.png 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53333067210_ea0d6045f4_4k-copy-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53333067210_ea0d6045f4_4k-copy-1536x2048.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>04 September 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Cahors, 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\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/VP-arrow-18-Vers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19647\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cath\u00e9drale Saint-\u00c9tienne de Cahors is an absolute wonder. Medieval paintings decorate many of the walls and columns. The architecture itself is early Gothic, with an overlay of Byzantine elements. I\u2019ve never seen anything quite like it.\u00a0It has domes amid the Gothic: one is decorated with 14th-century frescoes depicting the stoning of Saint Stephen, as well as eight prophets. 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