{"id":855,"date":"2021-07-14T16:17:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T14:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/uncategorized\/the-crossbow-festival\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T14:17:45","slug":"the-crossbow-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/events-cat\/the-crossbow-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crossbow Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a traditional competiton with the ancient crossbow. The Balestrieri of Gubbio and those of Sansepolcro wear the characteristic period costumes and meet every year in the exceptional scenery of Piazza Grande.<\/p>\n<p>The competion consists of centering the \u201crate\u201d, a target placed 36 meters away;the crossbowman who manages to hit the nearest point in the center of the target receives the \u201cPalio\u201d as a reward, a valuable banner made each year by a well-known artist.During the event there is the spectacular performance of the flag-wavers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-lava_thumb_large wp-image-544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/serie-di-tiri-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a traditional competiton with the ancient crossbow. The Balestrieri of Gubbio and those of Sansepolcro wear the characteristic period costumes and meet every year in the exceptional scenery of Piazza Grande. The competion consists of centering the \u201crate\u201d, a target placed 36 meters away;the crossbowman who manages to hit the nearest point in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-cat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelsanmarcogubbio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}