Piazza di San Cosimato
Workaday piazza where a century-old produce market runs beside a medieval convent turned hospital.
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This guide to Piazza di San Cosimato in Rome begins at a small Romanesque bell tower and the cloistered Poor Clares who lived behind it from the thirteenth century, and Pope Sixtus the Fourth's remaking of their church. It then turns to the square's market families, among them the fish stand Menelik, here since the nineteen twenties, and a cheese seller who inherited her stall from her father. Come on a weekday morning, while the stalls are open.
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