{"id":4531,"date":"2016-12-07T08:09:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2016-12-06T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T19:06:19","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-cesar-borgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-cesar-borgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: C\u00e9sar Borgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

H<\/span>ere is the Camino’s entrance into the major town of Viana, where the infamous C\u00e9sar Borgia is buried. They seem quite proud of it. In his later years, C\u00e9sar Borgia was reduced to being a mercenary captain in the various Spanish wars. Here’s how Wikipedia<\/a> recounts his death:<\/p>\n

He recaptured Viana, Navarre, then in the hands of forces loyal to the count of Ler\u00edn, Ferdinand II of Aragon’s conspiratorial ally in Navarre, but not the castle, which he then besieged. In the early morning of 11 March 1507, an enemy party of knights fled from the castle during a heavy storm. Outraged at the ineffectiveness of the siege, the Italian commander chased them only to find himself on his own. The party of knights discovered Borgia was alone, and trapped him in an ambush. Borgia received a fatal injury from a spear. He was then stripped of all his luxurious garments, valuables and a leather mask covering half his face (disfigured possibly by syphilis during his late years). Borgia was left lying naked, with just a red tile covering his genitals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Date: 06 April 2016
\nPlace: Viana (Navarra, Spain)<\/p>\n

Map of the day:<\/p>\n

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Here is the Camino’s entrance into the major town of Viana, where the infamous C\u00e9sar Borgia is buried. They seem quite proud of it. In his later years, C\u00e9sar Borgia was reduced to being a mercenary captain in the various Spanish wars. Here’s how Wikipedia recounts his death: He recaptured Viana, Navarre, then in the hands of forces loyal to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-map","category-photo-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","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=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4533,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions\/4533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}