{"id":5247,"date":"2017-04-21T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2017-04-20T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T00:29:56","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-cross-of-the-valiant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-cross-of-the-valiant\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Cross of the Valiant"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>his monument is roughly halfway between Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Gra\u00f1\u00f3n. It commemorates a hand-to-hand fight between the champions of these two towns in medieval times. They were to determine which town had the right to graze their animals on the surrounding disputed field. For their champion, the people of Santo Domingo chose a professional fighter, paying him handsomely and indulging him with rich foods while he trained for the fight. The people of Gra\u00f1\u00f3n chose a local farmer named Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda, who continued to do his farming chores and fed himself with caparrones (red beans). I won’t get into the details of the fight, but suffice it to say that Gra\u00f1\u00f3n has pasture rights here to this day.<\/p>\n

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Date: 09 April 2016
\nPlace: Between Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Gra\u00f1\u00f3n (La Rioja, Spain)<\/p>\n

Bonus: here’s a closeup of the sign.<\/p>\n

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Maps!<\/p>\n

We started the day in Azofra, lunched in Santo Domingo, and are pushing on to Gra\u00f1\u00f3n!<\/p>\n

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This monument is roughly halfway between Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Gra\u00f1\u00f3n. It commemorates a hand-to-hand fight between the champions of these two towns in medieval times. They were to determine which town had the right to graze their animals on the surrounding disputed field. For their champion, the people of Santo Domingo chose a professional fighter, paying him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5247","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\/5247","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=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}