Rome, Street Scenes

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It would be possible to take a million photos of similar scenes, there is just no place we have seen in Rome that is not interesting for a tourist. We have visited 4 different years, and while we didn’t really look for the “new” Rome, we often wondered where they have built a residential building in the past 100 years.

When we drive in this city, especially driving a RV that is higher than a regular car, we must be sure and read the round signs with a red border, with numbers inside the circle. That tells us when an arch, or an over-crossing of some kind is not high enough to permit our vehicle to pass, or when the street is too narrow. We have had to back up a block or two many times in Europe, when we found our vehicle didn’t fit.
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One of the fun things we find, are street markets of all kinds. A block or two from Via Del Corso on Via Della Vite, we shopped in one of Rome’s outdoor street markets, where food, “fleas,” clothing, and artwork were for sale. For $16 the artist Ernesto Lupino sold us an excellent “oil on copper” painting, in a nice frame. He signed his name on the back, dated it “23-6-1980,” and noted the city and street name, “Roma, Via Della Vite.”

Another man had a push-cart filled with brass and copper pots, pans, and other objects. We bought three intriguing 20 inch high brass oil lamps that had been used in church ceremonies of some kind. We paid about $20 each and it was a nice surprise when we found the same lamps in three or four other places in Italy, with a price at least twice what we paid the street vendor in Rome.
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There must be a thousand town Squares (whatever they are called in Italian) in Rome. Don't know the name of this one, but isn't it beautiful. The biggest surprise is the lack of traffic — you can actually see pavement, not something seen too often in Rome. Well, there is pavement, it's just usually completely covered by cars and busses.
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Another day, another street market.