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called Piazza Vittorio.
It is the largest square in Rome than those made after the unit of Italy at the end nineteenth century (measure m.316 x 174). Built on the model of British Squares, it is home-from 1902 - a traditional market where that is really worth a trip.
They are for sale foods characteristic of many countries of the world, especially Chinese, Africans, Arabs and Indians.

Moreover, in some shops in the area, run by immigrants, can be found items, furniture and clothing import heads.

From Esquilino you can continue going visit in the district of Trastevere where the Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere. If you are in this area of the city, we recommend that you eat in Trastevere where many taverns still retain the atmosphere of rionali inns. Among these Checco er Carrettiere in Via Benedetta, La Cisterna in the street with the same name or the pizzeria Ciceruacchio in Piazza dei Mercanti, feature set tavern in the old prisons of Trastevere, where folk music is played.
In Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, the heart of the district, is the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, one of Rome's medieval gems. Founded in the fourth century by Pope Julius I (337-352), was the first church in the city dedicated to the cult of the Virgin. The mosaics dell'abside represent the Coronation of the Virgin, built in 1143 and the Stories of the Virgin made by Pietro Cavallini around 1290, at the commissioning of Cardinal Stefaneschi Bertoldo. The cycle mosaic documents the gradual shift from an elegant but immobile language Byzantine three-dimensional compositions, in which figures and architecture are much greater thickness. Just architectures play a decisive role, it seemed protagonists scene: one can not even talk about perspective, but it is clear a new concept of space. The figure, found body volume, are impregnated in the gestures and expressions of humanity that refers to the figures of Giotto, the other big star of the painting between thirteenth and fourteenth century.

At the end of this walk is a curiosity.
To achieve one meter square mosaic tiles needed around ten thousand, all cutlery hand with the thumb.
It is conceivable that in order to achieve a large mosaic there was need for a workshop of craftsmen specialized in the trade and, in a city like Rome, the shops had to be many view the growing demand for work.

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