{"id":3477,"date":"2010-07-30T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T07:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:05:52","slug":"istanbul-basilica-cistern-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/istanbul-basilica-cistern-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0130stanbul&#8217;s Basilica Cistern at risk of collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/basilica-cistern.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3478\" title=\"\u0130stanbul&#039;s Basilica Cistern at risk of collapse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/basilica-cistern-340x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/basilica-cistern-340x262.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/basilica-cistern-389x300.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/basilica-cistern.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>The Basilica Cistern, which is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, at risk of collapse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heavy traffic, primarily from large tour buses, threatens one of Istanbul\u2019s most popular tourist attractions, a guides\u2019 association has said, warning that the Basilica Cistern may be on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The Chamber of Istanbul Tourist Guides, or \u0130RO wrote statement that \u201cThe road passing near the Basilica Cistern should be closed to heavy traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Built in the 6th century Basilica Cistern  provided water for area residents.<\/p>\n<p>In order to reduce the risk to the Basilica Cistern, a provincial administration building located on the street above will be demolished to minimize the weight that must be borne.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0130stanbul&#8217;s Basilica Cistern at risk of collapse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7867,118,137],"tags":[7875,7883],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-culture-art","category-sectoral","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8318,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/8318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}