The Qasr ibn Wardan was built during the reign of Emperor Justinian in 564 CE on the edge of the desert as part of a fortification system similar to the Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi. The complex consists of three units: a domed church with a striking yellow and black color pattern from basalt and limestone, an administrative palace with arched facades and a frieze decorated with falcon heads, and a rectangular barracks for military housing. The ground floor was used for storing grain and water, with reused marble columns from Apamea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Qasr ibn Wardan was built during the reign of Emperor Justinian in 564 CE on the edge of the desert as part of a fortification system similar to the Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi. The complex consists of three units: a domed church with a striking yellow and black color pattern from basalt and limestone, an administrative palace with arched facades and a frieze decorated with falcon heads, and a rectangular barracks for military housing. The ground floor was used for storing grain and water, with reused marble columns from Apamea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,210],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castles-homs","category-homs","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}