Piazza di San Cosimato

This guide to Piazza di San Cosimato in Rome follows the Poor Clare nuns who lived here from 1233 until the newly unified Italian state seized religious property in 1873 and finally evicted them in 1891. It traces what replaced them: the convent's turn into a hospital, still standing at the piazza's edge, and the morning market the city set up here in the 1920s, whose stalls have stayed in the same families since.