Everything for Sale

Rome's Porta Portese Sunday flea market in Trastevere

The motherload 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.

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.

Via Ippolito Nievo (take tram 8 into Trastevere about five stops)
Sunday morning only