{"id":2934,"date":"2021-10-11T09:08:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/uncategorized\/giudecca-or-the-ciambra-palace\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:08:24","slug":"giudecca-or-the-ciambra-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/uncategorized\/giudecca-or-the-ciambra-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Giudecca or the Ciambra Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Giudecca<\/strong>, so-called because of its location in the\u00a0<strong>ancient Jewish quarter of the city<\/strong>, was built in the early 16th century by the Ciambra family, whose coat of arms depicting a deer at the foot of a tree is inserted into the arched portal.<\/p>\n<p>It is a building on two floors, with lateral towers\u00a0 fully covered with diamond pointed bossages, the so-called picos spagnoli (spanish peaks) with characteristic crowning ledges and arches. On the fa\u00e7ade of visible square blocks is the ground floor portal opening with an archivolt decorated with diamond-tip and saw-tooth patterns.<\/p>\n<p>On various levels there are windows enhanced by meticulous decoration and etchings of exquisite workmanship resulting from the Spanish tradition of silver chiseling (plateresque).<\/p>\n<p>Trapani\u2019s Giudecca, together with the Steripinto in Sciacca, is the most significant example of 16th century Sicilian architecture as it blends the elements of\u00a0<strong>Gothic<\/strong>\u00a0(arched portals),\u00a0<strong>Renaissance<\/strong>\u00a0(architrave windows), and\u00a0<strong>Plateresque<\/strong>\u00a0(picos and window decoration).<\/p>\n<p>An archway and a gallery lead into the courtyard where remnants of the original building are still evident, including a window architrave.<\/p>\n<p>Transformations, restorations and alterations have unfortunately changed the original layout of the building: the entrance has been walled up and transformed as well as some windows, converted for residential use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Giudecca, so-called because of its location in the\u00a0ancient Jewish quarter of the city, was built in the early 16th century by the Ciambra family, whose coat of arms depicting a deer at the foot of a tree is inserted into the arched portal. It is a building on two floors, with lateral towers\u00a0 fully covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trapani-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}