Only a 5 minute walk from our palazzo, Campo dei Fiori is a popular piazza where many of us come to shop in its open markets during the day and dine at night. Over time, restaurants and bars catering to tourists have begun appearing (and often with strange names), but the Forno Campo dei Fiori is a must visit. It is a bakery on the west side of the Piazza with probably some of the best pastries I have ever eaten.
The festive piazza also has a darker history, where the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burnt alive in 1600 because his ideas were deemed to be heretical by the Roman Inquisition. A statue is erected at the spot of his death, defiantly facing the Vatican to this very day.