{"id":97182563,"date":"2016-10-14T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/?p=97182563"},"modified":"2016-10-14T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T20:31:10","slug":"free-all-day-wine-fountain-opens-in-italy-books-flight-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/free-all-day-wine-fountain-opens-in-italy-books-flight-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Free All-Day Wine Fountain Opens in Italy&#8230; *Books Flight Immediately*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been to Italy, you&#8217;ve heard the oft-recounted tale that the wine is cheaper than the water. And if you&#8217;re American, you&#8217;ve probably grumbled something like, &#8220;Well, yeah, but the water&#8217;s free where I&#8217;m from.&#8221;\u00a0Grumble no more, fellow Americans. We&#8217;d like to introduce you to Italy&#8217;s newest attraction: a free, 24-hour wine fountain.\u00a0It&#8217;s like a water fountain&#8230; But for wine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>In Abruzzo \u00e8 stata inaugurata la prima fontana pubblica da cui esce <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vino?src=hash\">#vino<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KE36cSeCRT\">https:\/\/t.co\/KE36cSeCRT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stefano Labate (@stefanolabate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stefanolabate\/status\/786205271307747328\">October 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. We guess dreams really <em>do<\/em> come true! We don&#8217;t know about you, but we&#8217;re seriously\u00a0packing our bags and heading straight for Italy. Where exactly are we heading?\u00a0The fountain is located in Italy&#8217;s beautiful Abruzzo region &#8212; just east of Rome &#8212; and is alongside the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camminodisantommaso.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cammino di Tommaso<\/a> pilgrimage.\u00a0The nearly 200-mile trek takes about 15 days on foot and tours through some of Italy&#8217;s most picturesque landscapes. Like vineyards. And free wine fountains.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BK0kJZPAQzf\/\" target=\"_blank\">A photo posted by Italia.it (@italiait)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-09-26T13:46:33+00:00\">Sep 26, 2016 at 6:46am PDT<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fountain is sponsored by Abruzzo winery\u00a0Dora Sarchese, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.it\/20161012\/the-first-wine-fountain-just-opened-in-italy-and-its-free\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a>\u00a0got the idea from a similar concept set up on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain.\u00a0We hope this trend catches on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the famous wine fountain:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 62.5% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BLaaWLMBtJu\/\" target=\"_blank\">A photo posted by Dora Sarchese (@dora_sarchese)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-11T06:32:03+00:00\">Oct 10, 2016 at 11:32pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Okay. Let&#8217;s get on over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-rome-rom-italy?fpaffiliate=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a>.\u00a0Like, right now.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been to Italy, you&#8217;ve heard the oft-recounted tale that the wine is cheaper than the water. And if you&#8217;re American, you&#8217;ve probably grumbled something like, &#8220;Well, yeah, but the water&#8217;s free where I&#8217;m from.&#8221;\u00a0Grumble no more, fellow Americans. We&#8217;d like to introduce you to Italy&#8217;s newest attraction: a free, 24-hour wine fountain.\u00a0It&#8217;s like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":97182566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1540,31],"tags":[2451,572,406,2452],"class_list":["post-97182563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-news","category-trending-stories","tag-abruzzo","tag-italy","tag-rome","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97182563"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97182572,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182563\/revisions\/97182572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97182566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97182563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97182563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97182563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}