{"id":7614,"date":"2018-07-19T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2018-07-19T15:26:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:26:27","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-castillo-de-sarracin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-castillo-de-sarracin\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Castillo de Sarrac\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>s we leave the village of Vega de Valcarce, the Camino is carefully watched by the ruins of the Castillo de Sarrac\u00edn on the hills above. Despite the similarity of names, the castle has nothing to do with the Saracens, except perhaps that the Moors destroyed the original Christian castle on this site in the year 714. It was rebuilt by (or possibly for) a Christian Prince named Sarracino Gat\u00f3nez, lord of Sarrac\u00edn, count of Bierzo and Astorga in the ninth century and named for him. It was expanded &#8211; rebuilt, really &#8211; in the 14th century. The centuries since haven&#8217;t been kind, however.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-castillo-de-sarracin\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7615\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: 25 April 2016<br \/>\nPlace: leaving Vega de Valcarce (Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Spain)<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Map:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-villafranca-at-last\/el_camino_frances_26m-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7494\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we leave the village of Vega de Valcarce, the Camino is carefully watched by the ruins of the Castillo de Sarrac\u00edn on the hills above. Despite the similarity of names, the castle has nothing to do with the Saracens, except perhaps that the Moors destroyed the original Christian castle on this site in the year 714. It was rebuilt [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7614","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\/7614","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=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}