Wet Market

Mercato Porta Palazzo, the biggest open air market in Europe is normally not a so called 'Wet Market', like those we have in Singapore, but the rain is back and transformed it into a wet wet market.

The ground is wet, the people are less, making shopping seems less chaotic.

Location: Porta Palazzo

Vendors

The market at Porta Palazzo, the biggest open air market in Europe, is obviously full of vendors and they  offer beside foods mainly clothings, bags and accessories.

Most of the vendors are actually not italian, those who sell clothings, bags and accessories are mainly the chinese and africans.

While making the photo, one of the African vendor wanted to know if I did ask their permission to photograph them. I told him that I am not doing close up of any person, so it is not necessary to ask any permission since the market is a public place.

 

Location : Porta Palazzo

Market Street

When I first arrived in Italy, I was quite surprised to see these markets in the middle of the streets. Scene that had disappeared in Singapore years ago and here in Italy, it is an daily event. 

The market is set up in the morning, and dismantled in the afternoon,  then place is normally used as parking lots. The prices of the foods however are usually higher than in the big market like in Porta Palazzo.

Location : Corso Palestro

A Normal day In The Market

The market has slowly gone back to normal, no more long queue to get in, but still some people are wearing masks and the price of fruits and vegetables has gone up with no reason.

Location : Porta Palazzo

Phase Two Market

The outdoor market at Porta Palazzo is finally allowed to open, but numbers of people allowed to enter into the fenced up market is limited, thus a long queue was formed yesterday when we were there. Ended up, we didn't enter to buy anything, the queue was too long.

There were fewer stalls then usual and the space was big, they should have allowed more people to get in, and strange enough the indoor market was allowed to get in freely with no control, isn't it more dangerous in closed up space?

Location : Porta Palazzo

Lock Down The Twelfth Day

Stayed home the whole day. Received a bad news in the morning, a dear friend of us had passed away in the ICU. She was in her 80+, was suffering for some illness for quite some time, she was sent to the hopsital because she was not feeling well, then she was tested positive and they placed her in the ICU.

 The day before, after the pharmacy, I actually went to the market at Porta Palazzo to get some fruits. 

It is just a short distance from the cathedral and have to walk pass the ancient Roma Gate, Porta Palatina. 

The market is usually crowded and the stalls are many and close to each other, and there are all kind of people, including lots of pickpockets, so usually I try to be very careful when I am there.

There were fewer stalls at the market and they were arranged spaciously between them. The stalls own by the chinese and italians seemed to have disappeared.
People were actually very compliant to staying in a safe distance between them in front of the stalls, No rushing, just orderly. Perhaps it was also the fact that there were policemen and police car around
patrolling.
Only the food stalls and shops were opened, the other stallsand shops were all closed, afterall, people have to eat to live.

All the way home passed through the Galleria Umberto I and via Conte Verde, both were pretty deserted with only few people around. I did however encountered some Africans and Gypies asking for money.

Daily news reports on the number of people recovering, infected and deceased can be staggering, especially regarding the death toll. However, when these numbers are connected to people we know, when these numbers match with familiar faces, then the real sense of relevant arises, is it then we can really feel the sadness of how close the crisis is onto us.
These are not just numbers, they are individuals who had a life, had families and friends, had history, had future, who had loved and be loved....

So PLEASE STAY HOME

Location : Porta Palatina/Galleria Umberto I/Porta Palazzo

Mercato centrale

Mercato Centrale is located in Porta Palazzo, where the huge open air market is.

It was just a shopping complex with mainly shops selling clothings and other mainly uninteresting goods. It is now renovated and upgraded to quite a chic eating place where some really nice and impressive foods are served at the ground floor, the first floor remains mainly shops and with a spacious 'room' to serve for events, such as private party, exhibition etc. 
The most interesting aspect of this floor is actually the terrace which can oversee the open air market at a higher level, which makes it perfect spot to photograph the market.

Whereas, at the basement, there is the antique ice house, the ghiacciaie where once ice was kept and distributed. 

The Mercato Centrale opens still past midnight everyday, being at the not really safest spot of the town, it really needs to be a lot more convincing to get visitors coming after the evening, plus the foods although are of better quality than most eating places in town, but so are the prices higher....

Please visit https://www.mercatocentrale.it/torino/ to know more about the place.

Market of Santa Giulia

Piazza Santa Giulia situated in the Vanchiglia zone, very near to the historical center. The dominant building is the Santa Giulia church, the parish church is a religious building in neo-Gothic style, it was built by the Marchioness Giulia Falletti di Barolo, designed in 1862 by architect Giovanni Battista Ferrante.

Behind the church , every morning there is a food market in the piazza....

Antiques Market Under The Arcade

Quite often stalls are organized under the arcade in piazza Vittorio for the antiques sellers, very interesting items can be found , although the prices might be a bit high, but it is definitely a pleasure to have a look at all these vintage, ancient things on display.

CDP May Theme : Smell

At piazza Solferino, a special event was held there, a series of stalls promoting France products. 
There was one particularly 'good smelling' stall which was selling soaps, beautiful, colorful and very fragrant soaps.

Obviously to choose the soaps, people started picking them up and smell them....

Everyone likes a nice smell.....

Some of the soaps they sell....


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Flowers Show : Clematis

The symbolic meaning of clematis flowers is ingenuity.....

 

A small collection of Clematis from the FLOR 14, plants and flowers exhibition-market at via Carlo Alberto.

 

A Weekend With The Flowers

Weekend full of flowers and greenery at Turin, the center was transformed into a garden: Via Carlo Alberto hosted nurseries and florists displaying their treasures in Flor14, market-exhibition of plants and flowers. Just three days dedicated to flowers, to green and sustainable agriculture in the city for Smart City Festival.

Along the pedestrian zone of Via Carlo Alberto, the lovers of gardening and plant collectors had the rare opportunity to experience the best of nursery production.

To The Market

A couple walking to the open air food market at Porta Palazzo, one of the most multi-ethnic area of the town....

Piazza Carignano's Market

In piazza Carignano, often there is a market during the weekends, selling mainly craftworks and foods like cheese, biscuits, cakes and chestnuts when it is the season.....

Sunday Market At Gran madre

Every third Sunday of the month, a special market is held  at the streets around the Gran Madre church, selling mostly antiques and crafts.

A Fine Day At The Flowers Stall

This the flowers stall where I usually buy my plants from, the very last time, we bought a double flowers Sulfinia and a pink Geranio.