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Markets: Better than the Porta Portese Flea Market?
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  • Lacristina
  • Updated By Lacristina on February 9, 2006
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  • Maybe this is what you were looking for? - Rome
    Maybe this is what you were
    looking for?
    by Lacristina
    On Sunday mornings, lots of tourists head for Porta Portese flea market in Trastevere, but nearby, there's another market which I think offers a little more local color and a little less of the piles of cheap, new, plastic junk. Instead of going into the Porta Portese main entrance, continue heading west, to Viale di Trastevere and turn left. Walk down the street, noticing the impromptu shrine on the left to the Blessed Virgin, with many plaques thanking her for favors granted. At Piazza Benardino da Feltre, turn left and follow the hordes to Via Benedetto Musolino on the right. Just before the market stalls begin, there's a great little pastry shop on the left. To be sure, you'll find cheap, new, plastic junk here, too, but there are some real flea market finds as well.

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    Markets: Porta Portese Market
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  • AlexDJ
  • By AlexDJ on December 27, 2005
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  • items of Porta Portese - Rome
    items of Porta Portese
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    On Sundays from 7am to 1pm, every peddler from Trastevere and the surrounding Castelli Romani sets up a temporary shop at the sprawling Porta Portese open-air flea market. The vendors are likely to sell merchandise ranging from secondhand paintings of Madonnas and termite-eaten Il Duce wooden medallions, to pseudo-Etruscan hairpins, bushels of rosaries, 1947 TVs, and books printed in 1835. Serious shoppers can often ferret out a good buy. If you've ever been impressed with the bargaining power of the Spaniard, you haven't seen anything till you've bartered with an Italian. By 10:30am the market is full of people. As at any street market, beware of pickpockets! Porta Portese is located near the end of Viale Trastevere, very close to the Tevere river. (see map on pic no.2)

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    Markets: Porta Portese "Flea Market" - Don't Bother
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  • Lacristina
  • Updated By Lacristina on May 17, 2006
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  • Entrance to the Porta Portese Market on Sunday - Rome
    Entrance to the Porta Portese
    Market on Sunday
    by Lacristina
    Well, it is in all the guidebooks. Maybe that's why you're thinking of going here?

    Every Sunday morning, in Trastevere, just across the Ponte Sublico (one of the many bridges across the Tevere - the Tiber River) hundreds, maybe thousands of tourists come looking for an interesting flea market.

    But I would guess that most leave very disappointed - and some of them get pickpocketed, to boot.

    Frankly, there's mostly new, cheap junk. Hardly any interesting flea market finds at all - just the chance for the professional thieves to get another chance at your wallet or purse in crowded conditions while you're distracted.

    I've got a better idea - it's nearby, and while there's some new cheap junk here, too, you'll find some real flea market finds as well. See my tip called: "Better than the Porta Portese Flea Market?" found here: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/67a55/23513/6/

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    Markets: Shoe market at pza testaccio
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  • jurkka
  • By jurkka on May 18, 2006
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  • every wednesday there is small (maybe 15 sellers) market for women shoes.
    we found nice shoes there, cosy and relaxed place to buy nice quality design shoes cheap.

    located at the north side of pza testaccio, at south side of the city. take subway and drop off at san giovanni station.

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    Markets: Best Flea Market in Rome: Porta Portese
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  • nbeard
  • By nbeard on October 17, 2006
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  • There is a great flea market every Sunday from early until around 2pm called Porta Portese. It is in Trastevere, and you can take the 8 tram or bus 44. It is absolutely huge, and you can find everything there from clothes to antiques to housewares to bicycles.

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    Markets: Marketplace
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  • bren1125
  • By bren1125 on September 20, 2007
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  • Via Veneto Marketplace

    A fantastic market not only for fresh fruits and vegetables but also for curiosity items from local vendors.

    Open daily.
    Located across from Hotel Fleming

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    Markets: Market between st Termini and p Vittorio E II
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  • sinoda
  • By sinoda on March 22, 2005
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    Mainly ethnic vendours will sell all a real market should have. From veggies to fruits over to meat and fish and all sorts of little unnecessary things.

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    Markets: Market in Testaccio
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  • By sinoda on March 22, 2005
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    Piazza di Testaccio

    has a small but vivid market to offer with vegetables, fruits, meat and fish.

    Basic italian grocery sold by mainly Italians.

    Nice atmosphere.

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    Markets: A Market where romans go ??
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  • pincopallo_it
  • By pincopallo_it on January 14, 2004
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  • Mercato Trionfale . Near the Cipro musei Vaticani underground!
    A real roman market where you can buy Everything at good prices!

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    Markets: don't miss the Porta...
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  • yasi
  • By yasi on September 8, 2002
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  • don't miss the Porta Portese.It's very famous located in Trastevere on sundays.Go and check it yourself,then tell me if it deserve its famous.

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