Seven gates to the flea market Taobao 罗马波尔泰
In the Italian capital Rome, if you are reluctant to warm bed on Sunday morning, I'm afraid to miss this ancient city's largest "flea market" in the opening moments.
After the "mouth of truth", along the Tiber River south, embedded in a white slip which red brick arches, is built in 1644, a place called Boertaisai gates of vehicles will lead you flow into it. Sunday morning, most parts of the Roman city are still idle state school of Enron, but the place is a bustling busy scene.
7 am not, in the stall when the shelves, shelves, there will be many local people braved the morning mist to Amoy shipment. Used clothing is very popular here, one or two euros tops five or six euros shoes, the models from grandparents to kids clothes. Stall leisurely business, it touches on tough inner impulse of the buyer's eyes and hands and feet.
Boertaise gate "flea market" of Rome's largest open-air market every Sunday morning, only 7 am to 2 pm open distribution of temporary stalls off colors, representing several neighborhoods across dozens of streets. Clear that very few people can say, "flea market" how much, I saw the naked eye can be and where all the white tents, iron shelves take up the booth, allegedly as many as 4,000.
Where shopping is a challenging physical work and mental work, particularly in the voices of the time after 9 o'clock, the flow of people in the crowds to find yourself in a comfortable stance, in the range of products to select the most desirable and cost-effective goods, really not easy. Mai bazaar is not only second hand, there are new goods, from clothing shoes, electronic appliances, bird fleas, vinyl records Dao Shi Pin, food, household utensils, Penzai, everything.
Not Italian does not matter, there is always a bargaining approach, especially in the Boertaise gate "flea market" in the antique district. Antique traders gathered by the central open space in the market, these are mostly gray and full of elderly people, selling may be bigger than their old age, items such as books in 1835, 1928 , the Italian newspaper, in 1947 with an annual output of the TV, early 20th century, the phonograph, World War II medals and so on.
According to the information recorded on the city of Rome, "Eternal City" Rome, this open-air market has more than two thousand years of history, when the market in a time when the golden age of the Roman Empire, very popular, promote the local economic development. Later, with the indoor shopping started, people's consumption habits change with only one of the few remaining open-air stalls bearing the memory of history, but to the contemporary time, "flea market" so that another fire up here.
14:00, Boertaisai gate "flea market" vendors began to withdraw, but the people in this linger, tourists are still many, perhaps the occasion by the close of Amoy to cheaper stuff.
Stand here two thousand years ago people could not help but suspect that the open-air market is like? One of the items, people's clothing to outside things may have very different with today, but people's shopping mood and attitude of doing business should not differ too much, inexpensive, honest and fair is the most popular since ancient times The.
Today, visiting the Boertaisai gate "flea market" is not only local residents enjoy leisure shopping, but also for international visitors to experience a good way street culture of Italy, if they can scrape together one or two favorite items, so much the better .
