{"id":190,"date":"2018-03-24T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/?p=190"},"modified":"2018-03-24T13:56:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T17:56:03","slug":"piazza-pretoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/sicily\/piazza-pretoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Piazza Pretoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/308BB1F0-F2FE-4354-B6F0-732A31175595.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[190]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-191\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/308BB1F0-F2FE-4354-B6F0-732A31175595-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/308BB1F0-F2FE-4354-B6F0-732A31175595-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/308BB1F0-F2FE-4354-B6F0-732A31175595-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/308BB1F0-F2FE-4354-B6F0-732A31175595-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our first day in Sicily, we visited the Piazza Pretoria, a square at the center of the city of Palermo. The square features a large fountain at its center, surrounded by over 15 statues of human figures, animals, and other mythological creatures. The site has been termed the &#8220;Square of Shame&#8221;&#8211;not only for its naked figures, but also because it was considered a representation of corrupt government influenced by the Spanish Inquisition. Many of the statues were even dismembered by those who were opposed to this significance.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the negative connotations surrounding the fountain, I found the piazza to be very charming. There is a striking balance between the space created around the fountain and the volume of the states. A beautiful symmetry exists between the four sets of stairs leading up to the center fountain, which rises up from a large base to a delicate point at the top. The white marble with which the figures are constructed creates a dramatic effect in contrast to the surrounding buildings, one of which is the praetorian palace (town hall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our first day in Sicily, we visited the Piazza Pretoria, a square at the center of the city of Palermo. The square features a large fountain at its center, surrounded by over 15 statues of human figures, animals, and other mythological creatures. The site has been termed the &#8220;Square of Shame&#8221;&#8211;not only for its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sicily","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}