{"id":10487,"date":"2020-10-10T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2020-10-05T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:31:12","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-cruz-de-los-valientes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-cruz-de-los-valientes\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Cruz de Los Valientes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B<\/span>eing a Christian pilgrimage route, the Camino has many, many roadside crosses and shrines. This particular one exists as the result of a medieval boundary dispute between the towns of Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Gra\u00f1\u00f3n. This site<\/a> gives one popular version of the story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is said that, many centuries ago, there was a dispute over an extensive pasture that was located between the towns of Gra\u00f1\u00f3n and Santo Domingo de la Calzada.\u00a0The inhabitants of Gra\u00f1\u00f3n observed with displeasure that the holm oak grove they considered their property was used by the residents of Santo Domingo.\u00a0The Calceans argued that these lands belonged to them in their own right.\u00a0They did not agree.\u00a0Day after day, residents of both towns had constant altercations and arguments.\u00a0There would come a time when an armed confrontation broke out between the inhabitants of the two towns, so the leaders of both towns met and decided that a neighbor from each municipality would be chosen to fight hand-to-hand, unarmed, in defense of those lands. Whoever wins will take the holm oak grove for his people.<\/p>

While the chosen Calceatense, a specialized fighter, was fed with select foods, Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda, the Gra\u00f1\u00f3n champion, continued to carry out his agricultural tasks and ate caparrones (red beans).<\/p>

The big day arrived.\u00a0The Santo Domingo combatant had been smeared with oil so that the Gra\u00f1onero could not catch him.\u00a0Faced with this difficulty, Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda inserted a finger into the orifice of his opponent’s anus, in that way he raised him up and threw his opponent.\u00a0This is how Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda won the lands of La Dehesa for Gra\u00f1\u00f3n.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The boundary remains unchanged to this day. Songs have been written about this fight. Locals still leave candles and flowers here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date:<\/strong> 10 April 2013
Place:<\/strong> between Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Gra\u00f1\u00f3n (La Rioja, Spain)
Today started:<\/strong> Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja, Spain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Being a Christian pilgrimage route, the Camino has many, many roadside crosses and shrines. This particular one exists as the result of a medieval boundary dispute between the towns of Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Gra\u00f1\u00f3n. This site gives one popular version of the story: It is said that, many centuries ago, there was a dispute over an extensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10491,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/10491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}