{"id":19985,"date":"2026-04-08T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/?p=19985"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:20:22","slug":"jewish-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/jewish-ghetto\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Ghetto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join this tour to discover the heritage of <strong>Rome\u2019s\u00a0Jewish community, the oldest in Europe<\/strong>, with over two thousand years of history deeply rooted in the city. It\u2019s no surprise that many locals here like to say\u00a0<strong>they\u2019re even more Roman than the ancient Romans!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Their\u00a0story begins long before Julius Caesar<\/strong>, all the way to modern Popes. Reaching moments like when\u00a0<strong>John Paul II became the first Pope to visit a synagogue<\/strong>\u00a0and embrace the Chief Rabbi,\u00a0<strong>calling the Jewish people \u201cour elder brothers, deserving of respect\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As you walk through this unique neighborhood, you\u2019ll uncover why the community was set apart and how, despite generations of restrictions, it held on to its identity with strength, humor and creativity. Here, every building, every corner, every stone has something to tell:\u00a0<strong>stories of hardship, survival and remarkable grit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, treat yourself to authentic\u00a0<strong>kosher pastries<\/strong>\u00a0from the city\u2019s oldest <strong>Jewish bakery<\/strong>, or taste iconic\u00a0Jewish\u00a0specialties like\u00a0<strong>fried artichokes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also enhance your experience with an <strong>optional\u00a0guided visit to the Synagogue<\/strong>\u00a0(\u20ac12 per adult, \u20ac6 for children, admission included).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join this tour to discover the heritage of Rome\u2019s\u00a0Jewish community, the oldest in Europe, with over two thousand years of history deeply rooted in the city. It\u2019s no surprise that many locals here like to say\u00a0they\u2019re even more Roman than the ancient Romans! Their\u00a0story begins long before Julius Caesar, all the way to modern Popes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[143,198,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appetitours","category-highlights-tours","category-rome-tours"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19995,"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19985\/revisions\/19995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appetitours.com\/wordpress2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}