Campo de' Fiori

Campo de' Fiori Review

A bustling marketplace in the morning (Mon.-Sat. 8 am-1 pm) and trendy meeting place the rest of the day (and night), this piazza has plenty of earthy charm. By sunset, all the fish, fruit, and flower vendors disappear and this so-called piazza trasformista takes on another identity, bar-life bulging out into the street, one person's carousal another's insomnia (for the full scoop, see our special photo feature, "Life is a Piazza"). Brooding over the piazza is a hooded statue of the philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake here in 1600 for heresy. His was the first of the executions that drew Roman crowds to Campo de' Fiori in the 17th century.