{"id":999,"date":"2019-05-31T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=999"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:58:54","slug":"bagni-san-filippo-to-ponte-a-rigo-23k-the-castle-on-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"Bagni San Filippo to Ponte a Rigo 23k The castle on the hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='float:left;margin-right:20px;width:300px'><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195453469.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195453469.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195456806.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195456806.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195458983.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195458983.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195502330.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195502330.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195505087.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190531195505087.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We start out with blue skies and sunshine and begin the 400 metre ascent to Radicofani. The tower on the top looks more and more like a castle from a chess set as we approach the town.<br \/>The countryside is changing, becoming wilder and with occasional flocks of sheep.<br \/>Radicofani is another town consisting of one long street which we walk down admiring the dark stoned houses. A brisk climb brings us up to the massive castle tower with views in all directions.<br \/>We see no other pelegrinos all day although for an excited Italian cyclist doing the Via Francigena, who embraces Ray like a long lost cousin in the main square.<br \/>After a ham and cheese sandwich in a square named after a famous bandit who terrorised the pilgrims from the safety of the castle, we begin the long descent down a ridge with more splendid views in all directions.<br \/>Ponte a Rigo consists of a bridge, a bar and a church with an attached Ostello where we will stay tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start out with blue skies and sunshine and begin the 400 metre ascent to Radicofani. The tower on the top looks more and more like a castle from a chess set as we approach the town.The countryside is changing, becoming wilder and with occasional flocks of sheep.Radicofani is another town consisting of one long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=999\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bagni San Filippo to Ponte a Rigo 23k The castle on the hill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}