{"id":8164,"date":"2024-08-20T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2024-08-15T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T15:05:36","slug":"the-origins-of-italys-biggest-holiday-ferragosto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/the-origins-of-italys-biggest-holiday-ferragosto\/","title":{"rendered":"The origins of Italy&#8217;s biggest holiday, Ferragosto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Euronews<\/a><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; August is officially holiday season in Italy. While tourists pile into the cities like Venice and Rome, Italians are making a beeline for the sea. The summer beach holiday is sacred and many businesses across the country shutter for weeks. The break culminates on 15 August with Ferragosto, a major national holiday.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1920x1080_cmsv2_15ab2f20-46ae-58b7-b10b-ba975432c453-6910224-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8169\"\/><figcaption>Photo by Massimo Virgilio<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/08\/13\/pasta-bake-on-the-beach-how-to-celebrate-italys-biggest-summer-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 15 is traditionally celebrated with pasta bake on the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":8169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1920x1080_cmsv2_15ab2f20-46ae-58b7-b10b-ba975432c453-6910224.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8170,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions\/8170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}