Piazzetta Pescheria

This guide to Piazzetta Pescheria, a small square by the Adige River in Verona, traces how its name, meaning Fish Market Square, once described exactly what happened there, with boats and cart-sellers trading trout and eel beneath its old walls. It follows the decline of that trade as refrigeration and supermarket chains drained the market of its purpose, until the building that once housed the stalls became home to a branch of the Conad supermarket chain. You'll hear about one small attempt to push back against that fate. Stand here and read the square's old name against what surrounds it today.