The Five and Dime

The stores here are always a delight (as long as you don't get frustrated) because you never know what they sell until you ask. Sure, they have merchandise on display. However, there is always plenty of other types of stock squirrelled away in nooks and crannies.

I thought you might enjoy our local tabaccoio. This is a "tobacconist's" shop, but it's really like a five and dime mixed with a country gas station. But if you were able to see through the scratched glass on the floor, you'd see that they are also situated directly over the Roman cisterns (which were discovered when they needed to do some floor work in this shop sometime in the 1990s).

Unassuming from the outside...no name, even!

Stone floor, and you can see the glass panels...

Lottery tickets

Stationery and cigarettes

Looking into the piazza, you have magnets and toys

There's even a loft above!

Calendars, sweets, cigarette lighters

 
Apart from the displayed merchandise, they have wrapping paper, stamps, the possibility of recharging your prepaid phone and paying bills through what amounts to a postal order, and all kinds of other things that I haven't realized because I haven't yet needed them.

Love,

Alexandra