Camino Photo of the Day: La place des Écritures

After sitting for my portrait, I took this photo of La place des Écritures. As I mentioned the other day, Jean-François Champollion was a native of Figeac. He famously cracked the code on the Rosetta Stone and successfully translated Egyptian hieroglyphics for the first time. There’s a museum here dedicated to him and his work, and there is also La place des Écritures, which contains, embedded in the floor of the square, a giant reproduction of the Rosetta Stone carved in black granite. And this is what it looks like on the rare occasions when there aren’t people standing (or sitting) on it.

Date: 29 August 2023
Place: Figeac, Lot Département, Region of Occitanie, France

Maps!