{"id":10642,"date":"2024-11-14T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/?p=10642"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:52:42","slug":"villa-rossa-pine-tree-officially-recognized-as-monumental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/2024\/11\/14\/villa-rossa-pine-tree-officially-recognized-as-monumental\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Rossa Pine Tree Officially Recognized as Monumental"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/pino-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/pino-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/pino-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/pino-768x1027.jpg 768w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/pino-1148x1536.jpg 1148w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/pino.jpg 1493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a dinosaur!&#8221; says Syracuse Florence gardener Gelso Sassonia. The city of Florence has officially registered our beloved, centuries-old <em>pino<\/em>, which has towered over generations of U.S. students from the back of the Villa Rossa Garden, as a monumental tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That means, among other things, it is now a crime to damage it, with a fine of up to 100,000 Euro. It also means we cannot make any changes to it with approval from the Florence municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A plaque has now been placed beneath the tree, which reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On April 10, 2024, this specimen was designated as a monumental domestic Pinus Pinea &#8211; Pino.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/pino-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10781\" style=\"width:479px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/pino-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/pino-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/IMG_3940.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/pino-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/pino-3.jpg 480w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/pino-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a dinosaur!&#8221; says Syracuse Florence gardener Gelso Sassonia. The city of Florence has officially registered our beloved, centuries-old pino, which has towered over generations of U.S. students from the back of the Villa Rossa Garden, as a monumental tree. That means, among other things, it is now a crime to damage it, with a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":10781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10789,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions\/10789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}