What are some interesting facts about the history of vacations?

🏖🏺 The Greeks were the first who saw the need to have rest periods to perform more work and intellectually.

🏖🏛But it is the Romans who invented the vacations as a social phenomenon. Many Roman families went on vacation through well-kept roads of the Roman Empire, the preferred destination being the Mediterranean coast.

❌🏖 In the European Middle Ages, leisure was considered sinful, so the vacations were not practiced even on Sunday.

🏖💰 It wasn’t until the 19th century that vacations ceased to be a privilege of the upper classes. The industrial revolution gave the middle class access to travel at reasonable prices thanks to the railroad.

🏖💯The Communist Government of the Soviet Union in 1917 was the first that spoke of vacations as a right of workers.

🏖✅🇫🇷🇧🇷 In 1930s France legalized paid vacations, and in the 1960s, along with Brazil, it became the country with the most paid vacations in the world.

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