{"id":1223,"date":"2012-06-12T10:04:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afriendinrome.it\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:01:43","slug":"la-dolce-vita-still-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Summer in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bancarelle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4928 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bancarelle-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bancarelle-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bancarelle-220x143.jpg 220w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bancarelle.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<em>ROME<\/em><em> is a city made for the summer. The sun shines, the classical, medieval and Baroque settings are sublime and the balmy evenings offer a long, languorous round of warm cobbled streets, candlelit trattorias and fountain-splashed piazzas<\/em>&#8220;&#8230; this is how an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/destinations\/europe\/italy\/rome\/718266\/Rome-Summer-in-the-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article <\/a>by Tim Jepson starts&#8230;and we totally agree!<\/p>\n<p>Many visitors are worried about the heat, but it&#8217;s just a matter of <a href=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?p=5346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good planning and scheduling activities smartly.<\/a><br \/>\nWake up early and explore the city in the cool hours at dawn: galleries, churches, museums and ruins will be flooded\u00a0 by a magical light.<\/p>\n<p>After a fresh light lunch, relax in your air-conditioned hotel, in a park, on the beach or next to a nice pool \u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?p=1239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> our article about this) and &#8220;<em>resist the temptation to sightsee in the heat of the day<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>At night you will discover a city full of events, terraced restaurants, open-air concerts&#8230; you can enjoy the breeze of the night during a Vespa tour, have a romantic walk with your sweetheart or simply enjoy the bars under the stars with your friends and find more!<\/p>\n<p>And, as Tim Jepson rightly underlines, &#8220;<em>don&#8217;t be tempted to tackle too much: a single visit, even one that lasts all of a long Roman summer, is not enough to do justice to a city with an eternal past<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;ROME is a city made for the summer. The sun shines, the classical, medieval and Baroque settings are sublime and the balmy evenings offer a long, languorous round of warm cobbled streets, candlelit trattorias and fountain-splashed piazzas&#8220;&#8230; this is how an interesting article by Tim Jepson starts&#8230;and we totally agree! Many visitors are worried about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-your-own","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}