{"id":310241,"date":"2024-08-09T22:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/otranto-hypogeum-of-torre-pinta-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T21:52:54","slug":"otranto-hypogeum-of-torre-pinta","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/otranto-hypogeum-of-torre-pinta\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypogeum of Torre Pinta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hypogeum could date back to the Neolithic period, subsequently extended and exploited in various periods for various functions. Its plan is a Latin cross, probably due to the Basiliani who transformed it into a place of worship, constituted by a corridor (dromos), with barrel vault pierced by many small recesses, terminating in a spherical compartment. The recesses, with great probability, they were destined to receive the cinerary urns of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>In correspondence of the spherical compartment, from which you access in the three environments absidati, rises a dovecot tower built in the XVII century in replacement of the roof collapsed. Near the entrance opens a small circular environment accommodates a fireplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hypogeum of Torre Pinta is located under the eponymous tower in the Valley of the memories, near Otranto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":237225,"template":"","village-conntection":[50901],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76111,76116],"what-to-see-category":[28438],"class_list":["post-310241","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-otranto-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-apulia","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-lecce-en","what-to-see-category-attraction-monument"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/what-to-see"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310241"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-region-and-provinces","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-region-and-provinces?post=310241"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}