{"id":1844,"date":"2012-09-11T19:19:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T01:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2012-09-11T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T01:24:45","slug":"scenes-from-sicily-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2012\/09\/11\/scenes-from-sicily-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from Sicily, Sedici &#8211; Tusa Autostrada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0112_tusa_autostrada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1845\" title=\"0112_tusa_autostrada\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0112_tusa_autostrada-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0112_tusa_autostrada-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0112_tusa_autostrada-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the north coast of Sicily, just to the east of Cefalu near Tusa, we stopped by the ruins of Halaesa, which are perched on a prominent hill above the Tusa River and this beautiful example of the Italian interstate road system, which they call the <em>autostrada<\/em>. Between Messina and Palermo, the autostrada plunged into hills like a needle and thread through cloth. Tunnels run into the multiple kilometers, and the whole thing seems relatively space-age and strikingly beautiful. Due to the higher cost of construction, this stretch of Sicilian autostrada is a toll road, but it was cheaper than other similar autostrada we took in northern Italy in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>More photos from our July 2012 trip to Sicily are available <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/107529286825657502272\/albums\/5773422425950346945\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the north coast of Sicily, just to the east of Cefalu near Tusa, we stopped by the ruins of Halaesa, which are perched on a prominent hill above the Tusa River and this beautiful example of the Italian interstate road system, which they call the autostrada. Between Messina and Palermo, the autostrada plunged into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[152,174,158,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"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=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}