{"id":44517,"date":"2025-12-02T06:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/rome-transforms-piazza-navona-into-christmas-market\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T06:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:46:05","slug":"rome-transforms-piazza-navona-into-christmas-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/rome-transforms-piazza-navona-into-christmas-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome transforms Piazza Navona into Christmas market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Christmas in Rome sees return of market stalls and carousel in Piazza Navona<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<p>Rome&#8217;s popular Christmas market returns to Piazza Navona this festive season, from\u00a01 December\u00a0until 6 January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event, known by many as the Mercatino della Befana, is a traditional fixture on Rome&#8217;s Christmas calendar and will be opened officially by\u00a0the mayor Roberto Gualtieri on Saturday 6 December.<\/p>\n<p>The market stalls sell wooden toys, sweets, food from the Lazio region, books, leather goods, artisanal Christmas decorations, ceramics and other gift items.<\/p>\n<p>The carousel is also\u00a0back and the\u00a0city will organise readings and creative workshops for children over the festive season, as well as live performances including the open-air Milonga della Pace dance event on 20 December.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas magic in Piazza Navona, Rome <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OSiMv3VaJG\" title=\"pic.twitter.com\/OSiMv3VaJG\">pic.twitter.com\/OSiMv3VaJG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wanted in Rome (@wantedinrome) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wantedinrome\/status\/1863996524570481090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" title=\"December 3, 2024\">December 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0market will be open daily from 09.00 to 01.00 on weekdays and until 02.00 on weekends and holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0festivities end\u00a0on 6 January, on the\u00a0feast of the Epiphany or La Befana, a national public holiday in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>That morning, La\u00a0Befana will\u00a0&#8220;fly&#8221; into Piazza Navona on her broomstick &#8211; with the help of Rome&#8217;s firefighters &#8211; handing out sweets to children.<\/p>\n<p>For details of the events programme in Piazza Navona over Christmas check the city website.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas in Rome sees return of market stalls and carousel in Piazza Navona. Rome&#8217;s popular Christmas market returns to Piazza Navona this festive season, from\u00a01 December\u00a0until 6 January 2026. The annual event, known by many as the Mercatino della Befana, is a traditional fixture on Rome&#8217;s Christmas calendar and will be opened officially by\u00a0the mayor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[26298,6681,14290,450,2423,29057],"class_list":["post-44517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-christmas","tag-market","tag-navona","tag-piazza","tag-rome","tag-transforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}