Campo dei Fiori, Campo de' Fiori or Campo di Fiori as it is known, is Rome's flower market. Today you find more fruit and vegetables than flowers, as well as fish, meat and non-food items.
This is an innovative approach to selling vegetables - the seller has prepared the mix of vegetables that go into a Minestrone soup.
Campo di Fiori means meadow, as the area was a meadow during Rome's decline. Today you find a more diverse selection of flowers here than could be found then.
Overlooking the Campi di Fiori is a statue of Giordano Bruno, or Filippo as his mother called him. Giordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher and author, who went on a 10.000 kilometer (app. 6,300 miles) walk between university towns in Europe when the Inquisition began a case against him for heresy, because he insisted that the universe has no center. He was eventually captured, and was burned alive here at the square on February 17th. 1600. The statue is fairly new in Roman standards - it was presented to the public on June 9th. 1889.
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