{"id":2119,"date":"2013-12-12T23:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphimages.wpengine.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:35:47","slug":"rome-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2013\/12\/rome-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The extraordinary Pantheon<\/a>, built under orders from Emperor Hadrian in about AD 126.<\/p>\n

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The dome is still the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome (inner diameter 143 m).<\/p>\n

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(L) Piazza di Siena in the Villa Borghese<\/a> gardens.<\/p>\n

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The nymphaeum<\/a> at the Villa Giulia<\/a>, built by Pope Julius III in 1551-3. The villa now houses\u00a0a large (slightly too large?) museum dedicated to the Etruscans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Piazza del Popolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Palazzo Montecitorio<\/a>, the Italian chamber of deputies.<\/p>\n

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The enormous Basilica of Saint Paul\u00a0Outside the Walls<\/a>, built around a sarcophagus thought to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul.<\/p>\n

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The frieze around the basilica illustrating each of the popes starting from Peter.<\/p>\n

Centrale Montemartini<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The extraordinary\u00a0Centrale Montemartini<\/a> is an outpost of the Capitoline Museums housed in a former power station (closed in 1930) in Southern Rome. Originally a temporary arrangement while the Museums were being reorganised, the juxtaposition of statues and machinery proved so popular that it became permanent.<\/p>\n

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(L) Control panel and (R) enormous boiler house of the power station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,2],"tags":[71,46,171,40,142,41,79,115,69,85,175],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-other","category-historical","category-places","tag-cathedral","tag-church","tag-gardens","tag-industry","tag-italy","tag-lake","tag-museum","tag-palace","tag-romans","tag-square","tag-statue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}