{"id":10456,"date":"2026-04-20T20:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=10456"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:30:51","slug":"the-modern-pompeii-buried-under-tons-of-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/the-modern-pompeii-buried-under-tons-of-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"The modern Pompeii buried under tons of concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">CNN Travel<\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; The next hill over, meanwhile, is the colour of concrete. It\u2019s not an experimental crop growing there \u2014 get closer and you see there\u2019s nothing swaying in the breeze. Closer still, you realize that this is because it is literally concrete, poured over the hillside in a polygon shape \u2014 a gray blanket swaddling the green.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1316\" height=\"740\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2140638812.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10457 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2140638812.jpg 1316w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2140638812-450x253.jpg 450w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1316px) 100vw, 1316px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1316px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1316\/740;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit:\u00a0<em>Giovanni Mereghetti\/UCG\/Universal Images Group\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/gibellina-sicily-earthquake-capital-contemporary-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Gibellina went from the &#8216;modern Pompeii&#8217; to a capital of contemporary art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":10457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"pmpro-has-access"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2140638812.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10459,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions\/10459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}