{"id":98881202,"date":"2011-03-10T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/turkey-travel-portrait-basilica-cistern\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T04:33:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:33:46","slug":"turkey-travel-portrait-basilica-cistern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/turkey-travel-portrait-basilica-cistern\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Travel Portrait: Basilica Cistern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This massive underground chamber was built during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in the 6th Century. It was used to collect and store water for the Great Palace and other nearby buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cistern covers an impressive 2.4 acres and can hold over 21 million gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, visitors can spend up to an hour exploring the beautiful underworld while enjoying atmospheric lighting and soft music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul. &nbsp; This massive underground chamber was built during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in the 6th Century. It was used to collect and store water for the Great Palace and other nearby buildings. &nbsp; The cistern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips-intel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881202","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=98881202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898335,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881202\/revisions\/98898335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}