Mercato Porta Portese

Rome's Porta Portese Sunday flea market in Trastevere

* Porta Portese flea market
Off Viale di Trastevere (take tram 8 into Trastevere about five stops). Covers streets of Via Ippolito Nievo, Via Ettore Rolli, and Via Portuense
www.portaportesemarket.it
Sunday morning only, 7:30am-2pm

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Porta Portese market. (Photo by Damato)The mother load of Roman bazaars is Porta Portese, a flea market off Piazza Ippolito Nievo that began at the close of World War II as a black and gray market but has grown to be one of Europe's premier permanent garage sales with more than 1,000 stalls and exhibitors.

You'll find everything here from antique credenzas to used carburetors, bootleg CDs to birds that squawk "Ciao," previously owned clothes to Italian comic books to used Leicas, all in a carnival atmosphere of haggling and hollering, jostling and junk jockeying, beggars, pickpockets, and shrewd stall owners, swirling around auditory pockets of badly dubbed dance music and the the scents of sweet roasting corn.

It runs every Sunday, dawn to lunchtime. Hang on to your wallet.

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