They're called shops, Jeff: Amazon billionaire Bezos discovers how things get sold in the real world on trip to Rome
- Bezos, who is worth $34.7billion, wandered in the Campo de' Fiori in Rome with family and a security guard on Tuesday
- The Amazon CEO was seen snapping pictures with his Amazon phone of the market stalls
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was pictured enjoying a Roman holiday this week as he took a stroll around a tourist market in the Italian capital.
Bezos, who is worth $34.7billion from his online marketplace, blended in with the throngs of tourists at the Campo de' Fiori on Tuesday, happily snapping pictures of the stalls with his Amazon phone and a camera.
The Internet mogul was accompanied by family members and a discreet security guard as he took in the bustling market at the heart of the Eternal City.
Exploring the marketplace: Billionaire Jeff Bezos takes in the 'Campo de' Fiori' in Rome on Tuesday as he enjoyed a spring break with family
The billionaire founder of Amazon was seen snapping away at stalls in the marketplace using both his Amazon phone and camera
Bezos, who is worth $34.7billion, blended in with tourists but was also discreetly accompanied by a security guard around the Italian capital
The 51-year-old wandered around the stalls dressed casually in a pair of aviator shades and blue checked shirt with a woman and young boy before buying a few things.
Campo de' Fiori is one of the most popular tourist spots in Rome, selling a diverse array of products from the flowers that the square takes it names after to coffee pots and fake Italian soccer shirts.
Bezos was not accompanied by
Bezos is ranked number 15 on Forbes' billionaires list for his vast
The Roman holiday appeared to be a well-deserved break for Bezos whose space company, Blue Origin, announced earlier this month that it had finished work on a rocket engine for a suborbital spaceship.
Blue Origin expected to begin flight tests this year.
Bezos said last week that the partnership between United Launch Alliance and his company on a new rocket engine was 'incredibly exciting'.
The so-called New Shepard spaceship is designed to fly three people and/or a mix of passengers and payloads to altitudes about 62 miles (100 km) above Earth.
Bezos was spotted at the popular tourist spot, Campo de' Fiori, in central Rome during a spring vacation
Jeff
- Toddler gets REALLY emotional watching Lion King for first...
- Crowd of Spring Breakers do nothing as girl is gang-raped
- Incredible moment ISIS suicide bomber's car explodes MID-AIR
- Man pretending to be Army Infantryman starts bar fight
- Girlfriend pranks boyfriend by making him SIT on WAX STRIPS
- Graphic: Woman beats toddler with a tablet in a parking lot
- Runner learns a hard lesson after celebrating win too early
- Actor Dennis Quaid caught on camera losing his cool
- Dashcam video shows cop car ramming armed suspect
- Burger King customer films staff member losing it over a...
- Boyfriend pranks girlfriend with dog in washing machine...
- All new Married at First Sight: Honeymoon is over
- Uni student, 23, took in his homeless, pregnant teenage...
- EXCLUSIVE: Tori Spelling was rushed to hospital with severe...
- More than 2 MILLION of Hillary Clinton's Twitter followers...
- 'She crawls off the mat - WE DON'T CARE!': Mother reveals...
- Disgraced anchor Brian Williams photographed in public for...
- Girlfriend whose boyfriend pretended he had put her dog in a...
- Stolen Valor? Row in Florida bar as man in uniform 'trying...
- Hillary Clinton's 'Scooby van' is a beast! Presidential...
- Through the gates of hell: Horror of Belsen is captured in...
- Iowa students preparing for Hillary's first 'listening'...
- Transgender 'toxic tush' victim Rajee Narinesingh steps out...
- Hacked to pieces with a Samurai sword, the burglars who got...