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Arms of Florence's four quarters

MARKETS

Groceries, snacks, food tourism.

The Mercato Centrale (Via dell’Ariento) is a sumptious fresh food market which is worth visiting just for the experience. You could also buy a ready-to-eat panino (bread roll) with freshly-cut salt beef from the Nerbone stall.

The Mercato Centrale building is surrounded by a street market specialising in leather goods, and similar stalls are found in the Mercato Nuovo in the Via del Corso, also known as 'Il Porcellino' after the seventeenth-century statue of a wild boar adorning a fountain.

On Tuesday mornings the massive Mercato della Cascine (Parco delle Cascine) is held on the north bank to the western side of the historical centre. Take-aways there feature panino con porchetta (bread roll with suckling pig).

There is also the Mercato delle Pulci (Piazza dei Ciompi), which certainly looks like a flea market but also sells quite expensive antiques.

Rik - 26 March 2003