{"id":1743,"date":"2012-07-16T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2012-07-16T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:38:44","slug":"villa-romana-del-casale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2012\/07\/16\/villa-romana-del-casale\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Romana del Casale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CameraZOOM-20120714120941090.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/wpid-CameraZOOM-20120714120941090.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We rambled south out of Enna, stopping at the World Heritage Site of Villa Romana del Casale, the location of a truly amazing collection of 1700 year-old tile floors in what must have been an emperor&#8217;s residence. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CameraZOOM-20120714121333921.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/wpid-CameraZOOM-20120714121333921.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tile work is nothing short of incredible, and it represents the peak of quality available from the early-4th century Roman African school. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CameraZOOM-20120714121714885.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/wpid-CameraZOOM-20120714121714885.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the thermae (baths) to the peristyle (central courtyard), unbelievable tile work, some the quality of paintings, can be seen. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"CameraZOOM-20120714123410025.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/wpid-CameraZOOM-20120714123410025.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of the structure did not survive, but the floors were preserved by the mud from a nearby river that buried them after the structure was abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rambled south out of Enna, stopping at the World Heritage Site of Villa Romana del Casale, the location of a truly amazing collection of 1700 year-old tile floors in what must have been an emperor&#8217;s residence. The tile work is nothing short of incredible, and it represents the peak of quality available from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152,158,226],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-152","tag-sicily","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}