{"id":447,"date":"2009-09-22T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/?page_id=447"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:04:02","slug":"mark-in-erice-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/mark\/mark-in-erice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark in Erice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE<\/p>\n<p>ROYAL<\/p>\n<p>CATHEDRAL<\/p>\n<p>According to the local tradition the church was first constructed during the period of Emperor Constantine, in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> century A.D. The building that we admire today was built in 1312 by king Frederick II of Aragon, with building materials from the temple dedicated to the Venus of <span>ERICE<\/span>. Throughout the centuries the sacred temple was readapted many times. In 1853 the interior of the church collapsed. The reconstruction began almost immediately and in ten years time the Royal Church was reborn in its splendid appearance which represents a precious example of neo-gothic art. [From the guide of the church.]<\/p>\n<p>Here I am at the royal cathedral<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/EriceDuomo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/2009\/02\/EriceDuomo-thumb-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"EriceDuomo.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a map of the cathedral<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/DuomoMap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/DuomoMap-thumb-180x240.jpg\" alt=\"DuomoMap.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the door way<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/EriceDuomoDoor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/2009\/02\/EriceDuomoDoor-thumb-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"EriceDuomoDoor.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are pieces of the interior<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/DuomoColumn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/DuomoColumn-thumb-180x240.jpg\" alt=\"DuomoColumn.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/DuomoRoof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/2009\/02\/DuomoRoof-thumb-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"DuomoRoof.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/EriceAltar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/2009\/02\/EriceAltar-thumb-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"EriceAltar.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the rose window (behind the arch window)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/EriceRosewindow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/2009\/02\/EriceRosewindow-thumb-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"EriceRosewindow.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ROYAL CATHEDRAL According to the local tradition the church was first constructed during the period of Emperor Constantine, in the 4th century A.D. The building that we admire today was built in 1312 by king Frederick II of Aragon,&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/mark\/mark-in-erice-2\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Mark in Erice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"parent":668,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-447","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/447\/revisions\/876"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}