{"id":3180,"date":"2023-07-04T07:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T04:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.immko.gr\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2023-12-19T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T14:39:27","slug":"church-of-st-rocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/church-of-st-rocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of St. Rocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p class=\"a\">It is preserved in good condition in the northwest corner of Splantzia square, near the church of Agios Nikolaos. It consists of two arched aisles of different shapes, of which the northern one was the oldest, a simple construction without any decoration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p class=\"a\">On the contrary, the south aisle has been built entirely of carved masonry, according to the architectural concepts of Venetian Mannerism. It is a building with accentuated joints in the pesses, which ends on its narrow sides in a triangular pediment, without a cornice. The main west face has the vertical axis accentuated by a doorway, a rectangular frame for an inscription and a round skylight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a\">On the south side, the center occupies a doorway with a triangular pediment and two large windows. Under the cornice there is an inscription: &#8220;Dedicated to the excellent and greatest God and to the Divine Rocco. 1630&#8221;. The inscription D(IVO) ROCCO (to Uncle Rocco) is also present on the front. The temple seems to have been built after some plague epidemic from which, as is known, Saint Roccos protected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church of San Rocco was built on the northwest side of the square Splantzia in 1630, probably after the outbreak of the plague, while Saint Rokkos was the protector of Chania from this contagious disease. During the Ottoman rule functioned as a military guardhouse, while during the Cretan State and until 1925 as a police station. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,64],"tags":[],"category_taxonomy":[116],"municipal_division_taxonomy":[107],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"category_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_taxonomy?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"municipal_division_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaniahistory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/municipal_division_taxonomy?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}