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Rome Street Life
As in many sunny countries, much of life in Rome is played out on the street. In the
morning, you can watch the city slowly wake up. Shop shutters are cranked open, rub-
bish collectors do the rounds, restaurants set out their tables: Rome is readying itself
for its close-up.
Dinner in the
centro storico
(
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)
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Day to Night
During the next phase, the fruit and veg markets in every
rione
(neighbourhood) will
swell with people, with a predominance of matriarchs wheeling grocery trolleys and
showing a reckless disregard for queuing (to a degree that many English travellers
may find painful).
Throughout the day, people come and go on Rome's piazzas and public spaces. In
Campo de' Fiori (
Click here
), there's a busy food market during the day, then the
