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Here is a mediæval house in Rome I stayed in when I first arrived there. It was right across the street from the Teatro Marcello, a majestic open air theater begun by Julius Caesar (now home of the Orsini family) near the Tiber. In the middle ages, the half buried arches of the theater had been used as fish markets and the area around there was called Pescheria. There were classical fragments of Imperial Rome laying around on the ground all over the place, and used in the walls of newer buildings - which themselves were now hundreds of years old.

House in Pescheria.


The stamps are from a letter the people in the house sent to me when I got back to San Francisco, and the coin is 100 Lira, back then, about 10¢. ($1,000 = 1 million Lira in 1982. I took along Three Million Lira when I went which was way enough for 6 weeks back then.)