{"id":10398,"date":"2019-06-29T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/?post_type=attrazione&#038;p=10398"},"modified":"2024-03-07T21:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:25:34","slug":"pomarance-the-fortress-of-sillano","status":"publish","type":"attrazione","link":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/attrazione\/pomarance-the-fortress-of-sillano\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomarance, S.Dalmazio | The &#8220;Sillana&#8221; Fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The current appearance is the result of multiple renovations made over the centuries, to adapt the original stronghold (11th -12th centuries) to the evolution of military technology, culminating with the introduction of firearms in the 15th century.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In that period the<strong> imposing polygonal walls<\/strong> were built. Around the fortress, a fortified village was also built whose walls still show the remains of the two main entrances: Porta Volterrana and Porta San Rocco.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the fortress is a <strong>mighty guard tower<\/strong> and three large buildings leaning on the walls that overlook a courtyard.<\/p>\n<p>Excavations has unearthed pottery, arrowheads, fragments of glass and a sword, now displayed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volterratur.it\/en\/come\/arts-culture\/the-museum\/bicocchi-palace\/\"><strong>Permanent Exhibition<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volterratur.it\/en\/come\/etruscans-land\/the-villages-of-etruscans-land\/pomarance\/\"><strong>Pomarance<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A 360\u00b0 view from the Sillana fortress overlooks most of Tuscany.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rocca Sillana\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" data-cookieconsent=\"statistics, marketing\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhlATTh8dwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><div class=\"cookieconsent-optout-statistics cookieconsent-optout-marketing\">Please accept <a href=\"javascript:Cookiebot.renew()\">statistics, marketing<\/a> cookies to watch this video.<\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17452,"parent":0,"template":"","tipo-attrazione":[1459,1457],"filter-who":[1453,1455,1454,1452],"filter-time":[1449],"class_list":["post-10398","attrazione","type-attrazione","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipo-attrazione-attrazione-turismo-attivo-en","tipo-attrazione-attrazione-cultura-en","filter-who-couple","filter-who-family","filter-who-adults","filter-who-single","filter-time-1-2-day"],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"it_IT","id":7380,"post_title":"Pomarance, San Dalmazio | Rocca Sillana","href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/pomarance-rocca-sillana\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attrazione\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attrazione"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attrazione"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tipo-attrazione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-attrazione?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"filter-who","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-who?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"filter-time","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-time?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}