{"id":813,"date":"2012-02-15T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/rare-snow-closes-colosseum-damages-historic-italian-churches\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:32:11","slug":"rare-snow-closes-colosseum-damages-historic-italian-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/rare-snow-closes-colosseum-damages-historic-italian-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Snow Closes Colosseum, Damages Historic Italian Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, powerful winter storms have wreaked havoc across areas in Europe not used to such inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Rome, rare snowfall and freezing temperatures forced the closure of the Colosseum over fears of possible collapse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Italy, medieval churches were assessing damage Wednesday caused by sleet, snow, and freezing rain. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/02\/15\/world\/europe\/italy-snow-damage-colosseum-monuments\/index.html?hpt=hp_c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">report from CNN<\/a>, important historical and religious sites in Urbino suffered heavy damage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Partial collapses were reported at the\u00a0 convents of San Francesco and San Bernardino, while the roof at the Church of the Capuchins is said to have caved in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The closure of the Colosseum upset many tourists but officials stressed that it was in the best interest of all. The 2,000-year-old structure could re-open on Thursday. Later this year, the ancient stadium is due to enter a heavy restoration process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>CC Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27323938@N08\/4350251899\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">neigesdantan <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, powerful winter storms have wreaked havoc across areas in Europe not used to such inclement weather. &nbsp; In Rome, rare snowfall and freezing temperatures forced the closure of the Colosseum over fears of possible collapse. &nbsp; Elsewhere in Italy, medieval churches were assessing damage Wednesday caused by sleet, snow, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897854,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/98897854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}