a huge truck delivers fruit to the market
Campo de’ Fiori means field of flowers. The area has a lively past. It was a rough part of the city in medieval and renaissance Rome. There was a market there then, and people of all levels of society mingled and got up to mischief. Caravaggio killed his opponent after losing a tennis game in the square, and goldsmith Cellini murdered a rival nearby.
keeping watch
There is a statue of Giordano Bruno standing watch over the piazza. He was a philosopher who was executed on the exact spot on 1600 for daring to suggest that the earth moved around the sun.
Today Campo de’ Fiori is an excellent market and the square is a busy hub where Rome’s citizens buy their food. Hopefully the only things being murdered here now are carrots and cabbages.
a giant pumpkin
chillies
more chillies
pumpkins and quince
white plums
pomegranates
can you believe these colours?
onions
mushrooms
small peppers
melanzane
Doesn’t it make you want to cook something right now?