{"id":498,"date":"2013-01-09T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/?p=498"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:45:24","slug":"mongolfiere-over-mondovi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/2013\/01\/09\/mongolfiere-over-mondovi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mongolfiere over Mondovi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/mongolfiere-768x576-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/mongolfiere-768x576-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/mongolfiere-768x576-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of a week of unseasonably warm, clear days the skies above Mondovi filled with brightly colored orbs that floated gently overhead\u2014le mongolfiere sono arrivate! The annual hot-air balloon festival brought nearly 30 ballooning teams from all over Europe to Mondovi for two days. (The Italian word for hot-air balloon is \u201cmongolfiera,\u201d after the 18<sup>th<\/sup>-century French inventors of the craft, the brothers Mongolfier.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The staging area was in the lower town, in a small park surrounded by apartment blocks, and it was amazing to see how little space the crews needed to inflate and launch the great things. Jim and I chatted awhile with one group of English balloonists who live not far from Mondovi, and they were so jolly that we sort of adopted them\u2014they became \u201cour team\u201d to watch for on the ground and in the air. We chased them by car across the hills around town for most of Saturday afternoon, picked them out of the crowd on Sunday morning and tracked their progress until they landed just before dusk on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mongolfiere added one more element of magic to this picturesque town\u2014colorful globes suspended in the spring-like breeze, with the medieval piazza and the Alps beyond. 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The annual hot-air balloon festival brought nearly 30 ballooning teams from all over Europe to Mondovi for two days. (The Italian word for hot-air balloon is \u201cmongolfiera,\u201d after<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/2013\/01\/09\/mongolfiere-over-mondovi\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}