{"id":2960,"date":"2021-10-11T09:57:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/uncategorized\/sciere-tower\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:57:40","slug":"sciere-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/uncategorized\/sciere-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Sciere Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018<strong>Torre dell\u2019Usciere<\/strong>\u2019 (ie. usher\u2019s tower) or simply Scieri, along with the other two called<em> Mpisu<\/em> and <em>Isulidda<\/em>, was part of the<strong> coastal towers<\/strong> designed in 1583 by Florence-born architect Camillo Camilliani.<br \/>\nHe was given the task of creating a system of towers to defend Sicily against pirates who infested the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>Like all other towers by Camilliani it has a square base with a strong embankment to house the cistern and storage for ammunition.<br \/>\nA square room divided in two parts for the \u2018<em>torrari<\/em>\u2018 (guardians) is located on the first floor; on top is the terrace where artillery was placed and where the signals (fani) with smoke and fire were sent up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Torre dell\u2019Usciere\u2019 (ie. usher\u2019s tower) or simply Scieri, along with the other two called Mpisu and Isulidda, was part of the coastal towers designed in 1583 by Florence-born architect Camillo Camilliani. He was given the task of creating a system of towers to defend Sicily against pirates who infested the Mediterranean. Like all other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-san-vito-lo-capo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}