{"id":159,"date":"2008-08-24T12:51:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T12:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/temples-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T12:51:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T12:51:56","slug":"temples-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/temples-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Temples Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>    Asia<\/h2>\n<h3>    Nepal<\/h3>\n<p>    The Kathmandu valley region of Nepal<br \/>\nhas&nbsp;a&nbsp;large selection of fine temples, known as stupas.&nbsp; The<br \/>\nfamed artistic skills of the valley&#8217;s Newar people reached their zenith under<br \/>\nthe Mallas.&nbsp; One-upmanship between the city-states of Kathmandu, Patan and<br \/>\nBhatapur fuelled a competive building boom as each tried to outdo the other with<br \/>\neven more magnificent palaces and temples.&nbsp; The Newari&nbsp;architect<br \/>\nArniko can be said to be father of the Asian <strong>pagoda<\/strong>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nTemples are either Buddhist, Hinu, or    both.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Swayambhunath<\/strong> &#8211; The most popular and<br \/>\n  recognisable symbols of Nepal. This great buddist temple sites on top of a<br \/>\n  hill west of Kathmandu.&nbsp; Also&nbsp; know as the Monkey    Temple.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bodnath Stupa<\/strong> &#8211; Similar to<br \/>\n  Swayambhunath, but much bigger.&nbsp; One of the worlds largest stupas, found<br \/>\n  In Bodnath, outside of Kathmandu.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Durbur Square, Kathmandu<\/strong> &#8211; A fine<br \/>\n  collection of palaces and temples.&nbsp; Where the city&#8217;s kings were once<br \/>\n  crowed and legitimised, and from where they ruled (durbar means palace).&nbsp;<br \/>\n  The traditional heart of Kathmandu.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Durbur Square, Patan<\/strong> &#8211; This<br \/>\n  concentrated mass of temples is the most visually stunning display of Newari<br \/>\n  achitecture to be seen in    Nepal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>    &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>    &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>    \/temples-around-the-world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia Nepal The Kathmandu valley region of Nepal has&nbsp;a&nbsp;large selection of fine temples, known as stupas.&nbsp; The famed artistic skills of the valley&#8217;s Newar people reached their zenith under the Mallas.&nbsp; One-upmanship between the city-states of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhatapur fuelled a competive building boom as each tried to outdo the other with even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}