A walk through the stalls

“Until the Sixties the market used to be along the road, on via delle Sette Chiese, then we moved to the square – tells Agostino – we were approximately 30 stalls, now we are 17 when everyone is there. I started when I was about 20 years old, I used to help my father together with my brother, while from the Eighties I work alone. My sons have another job and I’m afraid the stall and the business will end with me”.

Then there are Roberto with his mother Teresa, a food stall (pasta, biscuits, jams, milk, walnuts) since 1989, the butcher Sandro with his wife, Massimino and his father and wife at their deli, a fishmonger. Caterina and Cristina both come from Eastern Europe and tried to put together jewelry, laces and doilies with fruits, vegetables and succulent plants, but it didn’t really work out, so Cristina only is left.

 Since a few months, Mrs. Tamara opened a new stall, set up as a real clothes, accessories and shoes shop. “I had a fruit shop close by, but I have been evicted, so I took over this slot at the market, that my husband and I had bought long time ago, and I decided to completely change offer category”. So Tamara opened a little shop with women wear, belts, shoes, jewelry and little by little the customers who knew her for fruits and vegetable come to take a look to her new business. “Sometimes someone passes by, says hello and tell me ‘see you later’… hope they will come back”.