{"id":225285,"date":"2026-02-27T00:33:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-dar-lasram-palace-architectural-masterpiece-testifying-to-tunisias-prosperity-in-19th-century\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:33:51","slug":"tunisia-dar-lasram-palace-architectural-masterpiece-testifying-to-tunisias-prosperity-in-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-dar-lasram-palace-architectural-masterpiece-testifying-to-tunisias-prosperity-in-19th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Dar Lasram Palace &#8211; Architectural Masterpiece Testifying to Tunisia&#8217;s Prosperity in 19th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Tunis \u2014 Nestled in the heart of the interwoven alleyways of the Medina of Tunis, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979, Dar Lasram Palace stands proudly with its tall fa\u00e7ade of polished stone clad in the finest marble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"83\">Covering an area of 2,250 m\u00b2, this monument, remarkable for its Arab architecture and ceramic and marble decorations inspired by Ottoman, Andalusian and Italian arts, is considered one of the most beautiful palaces in the Medina. It embodies not only the history of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602260607.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis \u2014 Nestled in the heart of the interwoven alleyways of the Medina of Tunis, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979, Dar Lasram Palace stands proudly with its tall fa\u00e7ade of polished stone clad in the finest marble. Covering an area of 2,250 m\u00b2, this monument, remarkable for its Arab architecture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":225286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[11612,258,256,53768,16979,9956,53767,47996,257,6814,12870,254,53769,4703,653,6684],"class_list":["post-225285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-19th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-architectural","tag-century","tag-dar","tag-lasram","tag-masterpiece","tag-news","tag-palace","tag-prosperity","tag-south-africa-today","tag-testifying","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}