{"id":3550,"date":"2025-06-16T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/blog\/francis-i-trophy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:39:30","slug":"francis-i-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/en\/blog\/francis-i-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis I Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organised for more than 30 years by Ballooning Adventure, the<sup>Fran\u00e7ois I Trophy<\/sup> is a friendly competition starting from emblematic places in the Sologne. Places frequented at the time by Fran\u00e7ois I, King of France from 1515 to 1547. <\/p><p>For a few years now, the Belgian Balloon Club has been participating, this year with no less than five crews.<\/p><p>With take-offs from different places every day, from Blois to Chambord, via Cheverny and Valen\u00e7ay, among others, pilots and passengers are amazed for a week.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250601-WA0018.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"428\" data-id=\"2850\" src=\"https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250601-WA0018-1024x428.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250601-WA0018-1024x428.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250601-WA0018-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250601-WA0018-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250601-WA0018-1536x641.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250601-WA0018-600x251.jpg 600w, https:\/\/belgianballoonclub.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG-20250601-WA0018.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/figure><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organised for more than 30 years by Ballooning Adventure, theFran\u00e7ois I Trophy is a friendly competition starting from emblematic places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-non-categorise"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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