{"id":1385,"date":"2015-04-06T08:53:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afriendinrome.it\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:04:34","slug":"roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/roseto-2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5626 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/roseto-2-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/roseto-2-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/roseto-2-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/roseto-2-2-220x124.jpg 220w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/roseto-2-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>[revised April 2026]<\/em> Maybe you&#8217;ve never heard about it, but there is a special contest which takes place in Rome during springtime, it is the <strong>Rome Prix<\/strong> for roses!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the slope of the romantic Aventino hill, a municipal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comune.roma.it\/web\/it\/scheda-servizi.page?contentId=INF51502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rose Garden<\/a>\u00a0 is located.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every year approximately 100 varieties of roses from all over the world are on show and the most beautiful is awarded. The garden is <strong>open for free every day from April to June<\/strong> (exact opening and closing day depending on weather conditions and blossom season)\u00a0and everybody can enjoy the perfumes and amazing colours of the queens of \u00a0flowers.\u00a0This might be a nice break while touring the Aventino hills, one of our favorite areas in Rome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[revised April 2026] Maybe you&#8217;ve never heard about it, but there is a special contest which takes place in Rome during springtime, it is the Rome Prix for roses! On the slope of the romantic Aventino hill, a municipal Rose Garden\u00a0 is located. Every year approximately 100 varieties of roses from all over the world [&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-1385","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\/1385","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=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6324,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}