Walking through Via Catania it will not be difficult to come across a characteristic local market in the Nomentano district: the Italian Market. Its strategic location, a stone's throw from the Policlinico and the university and immersed in the populated areas of Piazza Bologna and Piazza delle Province, makes it a real neighborhood market.
The structure is developed in a very simple way and the interior space is well organized being composed of a single very large covered hall, in turn divided internally into five avenues or corridors.
The central one is dominated by fruit and vegetables, which run through the hall from beginning to end. Here you can find all the foodstuffs in the field of fruit and vegetables and, it is not uncommon, to find some producer, which supports the cultivation proper to the sale of the fruits of his land.
In the lateral "navatelle", instead, we find all the other foodstuffs: from the excellent butchers to the fishmongers that treat only the freshest products.
In addition, you will see norcinerie, flower shops, fresh pasta workshops, dried fruit shops and cereals; even a shop for your four-legged friends and an upholsterer. All fused together, shoulder to shoulder, in one place, as market tradition teaches.
The intense vitality that dwells in this shared space is certainly one of the features that most strikes the visitor; yes, because the quality of the products on display is important and undoubted, but if it is accompanied by an engaging and deeply human atmosphere, the market experience can be said to be complete.