In the beginning there was the Vecchia Pescheria (Old Fish Market) with its Istrian stone stalls and the memory of the women with headscarves selling clams, or rather "poveracce" as the people of Rimini still call them. "Piazzetta delle poveracce" because clams were sold here together with other fish of lesser value which was not allowed in the Fish Market. Today, however, this area is the centre of Rimini’s nightlife with an infinite number of clubs, restaurants, bars and pubs. A curiosity: in the poetic and nearby Piazzetta Gregorio da Rimini there is the oldest bookshop in the city: the Libreria Riminese (which in summer is also open in the evening) and at number 4 the house where the out-of-school student Giovanni Pascoli lived (1855).
