{"id":44218,"date":"2025-11-26T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/rome-begins-work-to-secure-mediaeval-tower-after-collapse\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:20:17","slug":"rome-begins-work-to-secure-mediaeval-tower-after-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/rome-begins-work-to-secure-mediaeval-tower-after-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome begins work to secure mediaeval tower after collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Worker\u00a0died after partial collapse of Rome&#8217;s Torre dei Conti three weeks ago<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<p>Work got under way in Rome on Wednesday to secure a mediaeval tower whose\u00a0partial collapse\u00a0on 3 November resulted in the death of a construction worker.<\/p>\n<p>The works will involve securing the fa\u00e7ade to protect the 13th-century Torre dei Conti, a landmark located near the Colosseum and Roman Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Police have authorised the release of part of the construction site which had been subject to a seizure order following the disaster,\u00a0amid an investigation for manslaughter, negligent disaster and serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>Octav Stroici, a 66-year-old Romanian man, was trapped under the rubble for more than 11 hours was extracted alive by firefighters but\u00a0died after arriving in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Rome&#8217;s mayor Roberto Gualtieri declared\u00a0a day of mourning\u00a0for Stroici, and ordered the evacuation of a number of\u00a0residential and commercial\u00a0buildings in the vicinity of the tower.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Wanted in Rome, 3 November 2025, as rescue efforts were under way to save Octav Stroici from the Torre dei Conti.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worker\u00a0died after partial collapse of Rome&#8217;s Torre dei Conti three weeks ago. Work got under way in Rome on Wednesday to secure a mediaeval tower whose\u00a0partial collapse\u00a0on 3 November resulted in the death of a construction worker. The works will involve securing the fa\u00e7ade to protect the 13th-century Torre dei Conti, a landmark located near<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[17951,27898,27858,2423,28945,27859,5069],"class_list":["post-44218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-begins","tag-collapse","tag-mediaeval","tag-rome","tag-secure","tag-tower","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}