{"id":11343,"date":"2025-12-09T21:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/?p=11343"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:37:05","slug":"las-vegas-more-than-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/travel-postcards-en\/las-vegas-more-than-casinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas: more than Casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a common misconception that <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> is the city where entertainment leads the world with about seventy casinos, including the most impressive <strong>luxury themed-hotels<\/strong>, real must-do <strong>tourism destination attractions<\/strong> for <strong>international visitors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the largest hotels in the world, the historic \u2018Excalibur\u2019 boasted more than 4.000 rooms in the 1980s, while the \u2018Venetian\u2019 is one of the most popular attractions nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both in size and uniqueness, this luxury hotel seems \u2018to transport visitors to a dreamlike atmosphere\u2019, allowing them to find themselves, in real time, among canals and alleyways of a surreal Venice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the current inflation, Las Vegas remains a popular destination for <strong>entertainment <\/strong>and <strong>short-break getaways<\/strong>, especially during week-ends, but the surrounding beauty of nature is something astonishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is what <strong>Nevada <\/strong>is, the importance and value of the so-called <strong>\u2018Silver State\u2019<\/strong>: some of more than <strong>60 US National Parks<\/strong>, defined by the National Geographic as the \u2018Cathedrals of America\u2019 in competition with the real and sumptuous Cathedrals in Europe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the most mysterious and mystical places of the West, wild and abandoned areas where traces of fascinating \u2018<strong>Ghost Towns<\/strong>\u2019 can still be found. Nothing there can be ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some <strong>Native American<\/strong> <strong>tribes <\/strong>found peace there, in their native land, while a celebrity like Michael Jackson was in search of solitude, far from the hustle and bustle of his daily life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trivializing Las Vegas as \u2018just entertainment and slot machines\u2019 would be too simplistic. A visitor&#8217;s approach to the city is multifaceted, therefore experiencing Las Vegas \u2018in the right way\u2019 is crucial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>aware and responsible tourist<\/strong> is well-informed about the historical and natural context of the city, because Las Vegas has more to offer than entertainment, it has its own history and culture to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a common misconception that Las Vegas is the city where entertainment leads the world with about seventy casinos, including the most impressive luxury themed-hotels, real must-do tourism destination attractions for international visitors. Among the largest hotels in the world, the historic \u2018Excalibur\u2019 boasted more than 4.000 rooms in the 1980s, while the \u2018Venetian\u2019 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-postcards-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11343"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11354,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions\/11354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}