| Dear Traveler, Lately I've been thinking about public spaces, especially the piazzas and great city squares where people come together. In the USA we've got Times Square in NYC — bright as day deep into the night — a colorful explosion of commercial come-ons. And all across America, shopping malls serve as pedestrian magnets, ringed with parking lots. In Europe, the piazza is where communities come together in all their diversity — a multi-generational celebration of local life woven into the peoples' DNA. Many of Europe's great squares have varying personalities and functions at different times of the day. For example, Rome's Campo de' Fiori is a busy produce market in the morning… Read more | 
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