{"id":539293,"date":"2010-04-22T04:29:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T08:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/54e9c2e94125175b933e36828aeaf08c"},"modified":"2010-04-22T04:29:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T08:29:52","slug":"how-old-is-rome-and-when-does-the-city-celebrate-its-founding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/539293","title":{"rendered":"How Old Is Rome And When Does The City Celebrate Its Founding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rome celebrated its 2760th birthday on April 21, 2007, marking Romulus&#8217; founding of the ancient city in 753 B.C. This creation story is not precise, and it is more a legend, than a historical fact. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q3\/q37\/q378\/q3780\/q378078_84134_856_417661126_ff1600fe11.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/97044050@N00\/\" >** Maurice **<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As part of Rome&#8217;s birthday bash, all museums are free to both tourists and local residents, Italy&#8217;s national postal service created a special commemorative stamp for the occasion, street performers and musicians filled the city centre and various outdoor exhibits sprung up in the busiest sections of Rome. <\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s capital even has a birthday song written for the occasion called &#8220;Felix Dies Natalis, Roma!&#8221; In many ways, the celebration is also an opportunity to welcome the warmer weather of the spring and it is a great time to enjoy outdoor events. <\/p>\n<p>Rome&#8217;s birthday has been celebrated for many years and even during the days of Mussolini&#8217;s fascist dictatorship. During this period, the celebration was also seen as a fascist labour day.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/ejd5WTJXk2k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome celebrated its 2760th birthday on April 21, 2007, marking Romulus&#8217; founding of the ancient city in 753 B.C. This creation story is not precise, and it is more a legend, than a historical fact. ** Maurice ** As part of Rome&#8217;s birthday bash, all museums are free to both tourists and local residents, Italy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}