{"id":310707,"date":"2024-08-09T22:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/populonia-church-of-santa-croce-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:32:16","slug":"populonia-church-of-santa-croce","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/populonia-church-of-santa-croce\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of Santa Croce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Santa Croce in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/village\/populonia\/\"><strong>Populonia<\/strong><\/a> overlooks the main square of the Castle and is a small but significant building of Romanesque origin, probably constructed between the 12th and 13th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the original structure has been extended with the addition of side chapels, a sacristy and a bell tower, adapting to the needs of the community without losing its essential character.<\/p>\n<p>The building has undergone numerous restoration works, thanks to which valuable traces of the past have come to light: among these are sections of frescoes depicting saints and an ancient marble sarcophagus from the 3rd century AD, reused as an altar.<\/p>\n<p>These elements make the church a place of great historical and artistic interest, capable of recounting the continuity of life and worship in the village of Populonia through the centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Church of Santa Croce in Populonia: Romanesque origins, medieval frescoes and an ancient Roman sarcophagus repurposed as an altar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":237663,"template":"","village-conntection":[50955],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76214,76210],"what-to-see-category":[30159],"class_list":["post-310707","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-populonia-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-livorno-en","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-tuscany","what-to-see-category-place-of-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310707","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\/310707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310707"},{"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=310707"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}