{"id":108608,"date":"2017-10-11T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T02:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=108608"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T02:58:13","slug":"venice-public-500-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/venice-public-500-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice for public after 500 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After 500 years of being reserved exclusively for the use of politicians and Italian royalty, a monumental landmark in Venice\u2019s Piazza San Marco will reopen to the public as an exhibition space that will host art installations, events, seminars and humanitarian projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-108609 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Procuratie_Venice_GettyImages-sb10063907aa-001.jpg\" alt=\"        Venice for public after 500 years \" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Procuratie_Venice_GettyImages-sb10063907aa-001.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Procuratie_Venice_GettyImages-sb10063907aa-001-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><br \/>\nBritish architect Sir David Chipperfield will spearhead the multimillion-dollar renovations to restore the decaying Procuratie Vecchie, the oldest of three buildings that border the piazza.<\/p>\n<p>The Procuratie Vecchie was built in the 16th century and dominates the north side of the square. At 152 m (500 ft) long, it\u2019s also the longest building in Venice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-108610 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2_gt64az.jpg\" alt=\"Venice for public after 500 years \" width=\"497\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2_gt64az.jpg 750w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2_gt64az-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/>For nearly two centuries, the building served as the headquarters of one of the world\u2019s biggest insurance companies, Generali Group, which will be financing the massive restoration project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 500 years of being reserved exclusively for the use of politicians and Italian royalty, a monumental landmark in Venice\u2019s Piazza San Marco will reopen to the public as an exhibition space that will host art installations, events, seminars and humanitarian projects. British architect Sir David Chipperfield will spearhead the multimillion-dollar renovations to restore the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[55375,1605,55373,55372,55374],"class_list":["post-108608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-italian","tag-politicians","tag-venice","tag-venice-for-public-after-500-years","tag-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/e1-9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}