{"id":13497,"date":"2023-06-07T17:32:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visit-beaujolais.com\/les-carrieres-de-glay\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:26:33","slug":"les-carrieres-de-glay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visit-beaujolais.com\/en\/les-carrieres-de-glay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glay quarries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carrieres-de-glay.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Glay quarries<\/a> are one of the places where the history of the Beaujolais region was made. It was here that the ochre stone used to build the famous villages of golden stone was quarried. The quarries ceased operations in the aftermath of the<br\/>last war. Sculptors and blacksmiths keep the craft tradition alive and explain what life was like in the quarries in days gone by (on Monday and Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings).<br\/><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"width:100%; height:300px; position:relative;\" class=\"cspm_linear_gradient_bg\"><div class=\"cspm_zoom_container\"><div class=\"cspm_zoom_in_13497 cspm_map_btn cspm_zoom_in_control cspm_bg_rgb_hover cspm_border_shadow cspm_border_top_radius\" title=\"Zoom in\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cspm_svg cspm_svg_white\" src=\"https:\/\/visit-beaujolais.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/codespacing-progress-map\/img\/svg\/addition-sign.svg\" \/><\/div><div class=\"cspm_zoom_out_13497 cspm_map_btn cspm_zoom_out_control cspm_bg_rgb_hover cspm_border_shadow cspm_border_bottom_radius\" title=\"Zoom out\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cspm_svg cspm_svg_white\" src=\"https:\/\/visit-beaujolais.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/codespacing-progress-map\/img\/svg\/minus-sign.svg\" \/><\/div><\/div><div id=\"codespacing_progress_map_light_13497\" style=\"width:100%; height:100%;\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glay quarries are one of the places where the history of the Beaujolais region was made. It was here that the ochre stone used to build the famous villages of golden stone was quarried. The quarries ceased operations in the aftermath of thelast war. Sculptors and blacksmiths keep the craft tradition alive and explain what life was like in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-heritage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Glay quarries - Walks in Beaujolais and South Burgundy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visit-beaujolais.com\/en\/les-carrieres-de-glay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Glay quarries - Walks in Beaujolais and South Burgundy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Glay quarries are one of the places where the history of the Beaujolais region was made. 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