{"id":865,"date":"2026-03-11T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/curiosita\/senza-categoria\/the-priare\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:12:40","slug":"the-priare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/curiosita\/villas\/the-priare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Priare"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Historical and Cultural Information<\/h2>\n<h3>Descriptions and Useful Curiosities for Visitors<\/h3>\n<p>It is a complex of underground quarries that develops on the top of the mountain below the castle of Bellaguardia for a kilometer and a half between artificial rooms and natural cavities of epicarsic origin. Open to the public and equipped for guided tours since 2008, the quarries were used for centuries, perhaps since Roman times, for the extraction of soft stone from Vicenza. They also constituted a refuge for the population during wars.<\/p>\n<p>The path, very suggestive for the visitor, is enriched by captions and lighting that enhances the most interesting points from a geological point of view and the mining history of the site. The temperature inside varies from 10\u00b0 to 15\u00b0C throughout the year.<\/p>\n<h3>Contacts for visits and entrances<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Via%20Castelli%204%20Martiri,%20721,%2036075%20Montecchio%20Maggiore%20VI\">via Castelli 4 Martiri<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m8!1m3!1d2795.917537675541!2d11.4049687!3d45.5117386!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x477f37c5a17697f3%3A0x19488f9f95497a23!2sCastello%20della%20Villa%20(detto%20di%20Romeo)!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sit!4v1773227386270!5m2!1sen!2sit\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>guided tours Sundays and holidays <strong>15.00-18.30 from March to October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Tickets<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Full price: 3,00 \u20ac<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Reduced: \u20ac 2.00 (over 60 \u2013 children 11-17 years old \u2013 groups of 15 people, by reservation)<\/li>\n<li>Free: people with disabilities and children up to 10 years old<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Contacts<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Culture Office:<\/strong> 0444 705768 &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:cultura@comune.montecchio-maggiore.vi.it\">cultura@comune.montecchio-maggiore.vi.it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pro Loco:<\/strong> 0444 696546 \/ 340 0796224 &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:info@prolocoaltemontecchio.it\">info@prolocoaltemontecchio.it<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a complex of underground quarries that develops on the top of the mountain below the castle of Bellaguardia for a kilometer and a half between artificial rooms and natural cavities of epicarsic origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-villas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitvicenzaterrevicentine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}