{"id":310867,"date":"2024-08-09T22:21:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/tellaro-church-of-st-george-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:38:29","slug":"tellaro-church-of-san-giorgio","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/tellaro-church-of-san-giorgio\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of San Giorgio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sixteenth-century Church of San Giorgio is the main place of worship in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/village\/tellaro\/\"><strong>Tellaro<\/strong><\/a> and, with its pink fa\u00e7ade, stands close to the sea: inside you can admire a nineteenth-century organ and a beautiful altarpiece dating from the sixteenth century. The bell tower of the church was the ancient watchtower that stood out from the walls surrounding the village: legend has it that the church bells were rung one night in the 17th century by a giant octopus that emerged from the sea and warned the population of the imminent arrival of Saracen pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Church of San Giorgio in Tellaro, overlooking the sea with its pink fa\u00e7ade, a nineteenth-century organ and the famous legend of the octopus that saved the village from pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":106340,"template":"","village-conntection":[51138],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76157,76154],"what-to-see-category":[30159],"class_list":["post-310867","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-tellaro-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-la-spezia-en","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-liguria-en","what-to-see-category-place-of-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310867","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\/310867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310867"},{"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=310867"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}