{"id":28525,"date":"2021-12-28T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/?post_type=attrazione&#038;p=28525"},"modified":"2023-12-20T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:00:03","slug":"santa-maria-a-monte-medieval-cistern-and-tunnels","status":"publish","type":"attrazione","link":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/attrazione\/santa-maria-a-monte-medieval-cistern-and-tunnels\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Maria a Monte | Medieval Cistern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>medieval Cistern,<\/strong> 13th century, is located inside the Municipal Library.\u00a0It is accessed through an internal courtyard that leads to a large room with a tufa ceiling reinforced by round arches. A semicircular opening reveals the water deposit created by the water table: an essential resource that was never to be lacking to supply the castle in times of peace or siege.<\/p>\n<p>The cistern is flanked by an underground tunnel, now blocked off, which served as a secret military passageway that could be used by the castle defenders.<\/p>\n<p>The medieval village of Santa Maria a Monte is made u of numerous <strong>underground tunnels<\/strong>, made up of communicating tunnels dug directly into the tuff, which formed a veritable underground city.<\/p>\n<p>This hidden route may have served as a sort of water supply network for the inhabitants of the castle both in times of peace and in the event of a siege. Running under the houses, the tunnels passed under the three circles of the medieval castle walls: a secret network to pass from one circle of the walls to another without being seen by enemies or as an escape route.<\/p>\n<p>During the Second World War, the underground passages were used as air-raid shelters. Partly walled in or sealed off to prevent access by the Nazis, they have undergone extensive changes that have not altered their undoubted charm.<\/p>\n<p>As they are<strong> private property,<\/strong> they can only be visited during special guided tours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7872,"parent":0,"template":"","tipo-attrazione":[1457],"filter-who":[1453,1455,1452],"filter-time":[1448],"class_list":["post-28525","attrazione","type-attrazione","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipo-attrazione-attrazione-cultura-en","filter-who-couple","filter-who-family","filter-who-single","filter-time-1-hour"],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"it_IT","id":7460,"post_title":"Santa Maria a Monte | Cisterna e gallerie","href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/santa-maria-a-monte-cisterna-medievale\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attrazione\/28525","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\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tipo-attrazione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-attrazione?post=28525"},{"taxonomy":"filter-who","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-who?post=28525"},{"taxonomy":"filter-time","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-time?post=28525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}