{"id":961,"date":"2018-05-30T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T09:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/?post_type=listing&#038;p=961"},"modified":"2020-12-30T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T10:59:30","slug":"borso-deste-column","status":"publish","type":"listing","link":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/listing\/borso-deste-column\/","title":{"rendered":"The Column of Borso d\u2019Este"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cl\">\n<p>The column of Borso d\u2019Este dates back to 1452: a squat bi-chrome marble column built as the base for a statue of the duke on his throne. Along with the monument to Marquis Niccol\u00f2 III, it marks the entrance to what was historically the ducal court, through the \u201cVolto del Cavallo\u201d (the <em>Horse\u2019s Vault<\/em>) archway.<br \/>\nIt was damaged by a fire and restored in 1718 using marble taken from the tombstones in the Jewish cemeteries. The circumstances surrounding the event have never been fully understood: there are records of a sort of payment made to the Jewish community for the material, there is no mention of the fact that tombs were violated to build one of the city\u2019s hallmarks.<br \/>\nIt was reinforced in 1960 during which time it was possible to photograph and study the inscriptions, before the monument was reassembled.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Volto del Cavallo, Cathedral Square<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","listing-category":[5],"list-tags":[],"location":[185,24],"acf":[],"cubewp_post_meta":[],"taxonomies":["Museums, exhibitions and memorials","Emilia Romagna","Ferrara","Optional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"listing-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing-category?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"list-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/list-tags?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}