Take a guess at what these are...

If you guessed "toilets", good guess but wrong. They are actually recessed receptacles for cooking/warming food at a food stall. Boiled hummingbird tongues, lark baked in aspic or warmed she-wolf milk cocktails were kept in these holes then scooped out to the waiting customers. In the background are ovens for cooking bread.

Day Eight (Saturday)

July 1st 2006
It was a good thing I got loaded the night before or I wouldn't have had any sleep. Once again I had to sleep naked on top of my sheets because my room was so uncomfotable. My room faced out on a courtyard but thanks to the cheap wine I didn't hear anything. I won't mention breakfast. When it was time to board the bus we again had to lug our bags 1/4 mile to the bus. This time it was do ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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