For Roman kids, Piazza Navona is one of the focal points of the city’s Christmas celebrations with over one hundred stalls selling all the necessary trash – both sacred and profane – to get them through the Festive Season. Neapolitan crib figures rub shoulders with green plastic elephants, amid a swathe of sickly sweets and pre-recorded tapes of dubious origin in a binge that continues until January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, when the beloved Befana witch brings yet more presents to needy Italian children.
