Rome Shopping Guide

You are in Rome, holiday or work does not matter, and it is the perfect time to art and culture ... why not go shopping? The shopping in Rome is for everyone, ranging from all the big names of the fashion world, small boutiques, to all sorts of gifts and specialty products.

For big brands, the best area is between the Spanish Steps and Via del Corso. Via dei Condotti, is home to many of the biggest names in fashion and jewelry world. Along the network of roads and picturesque alleys meet and dozens of shops where your credit card could be putting strain on!

For shopping and high fashion clothes cheaper but whimsical, try to Via del Corso, Via Nazionale or the area between Octavian and the Vatican. The most amazing boutiques can be found instead along Via del Governo Vecchio, in Old Town.

Holiday Gift

The souvenirs are located throughout the city Rome, between stalls and crowded stores. In the shops around Piazza Navona are the best ceramics, as well as countless small shops selling pasta, sauces and culinary specialties from all over Italy.

For the devotees, the Vatican is the best area, Virgins, rosaries, postcards of the Pope and much more.

Antiques

The Antiques in Rome and very popular, of course, you should be sure of what you are buying. The best ways are of the Coronary Via and Via del Babuino, in Old Town.

Books - Music - Cinema

For a good selection of books, DVDs and CDs to the headquarters of the Feltrinelli Largo Argentina is the privileged place for many tourists.

If you want to spend time shopping in Rome, there is an endless choice of places for you to choose from: from the most famous designer labels in Italian fashion that dominate the more elegant city streets to the outlets outside the city, to the old craftsmen’s shops and laboratories and the flea markets. For more detailed information about what to buy in Rome, we recommend you read our itinerary on Shopping in Rome. Here will just tell you the places in Rome where most of the shops are for you to be able to give vent to your consumer passion.
The most famous fashion streets in Rome are three parallel streets that all meet up with Via del Corso, starting from Piazza di Spagna or near there: Via Condotti , Via Borgognona and Via Frattina . The most famous of the three is Via Condotti, which owes its name to the channels that carried water to the Agrippa thermal spa baths. Today it is one of the most elegant streets in the world, lined with the shops of the most famous fashion labels such as Bulgari, who opened his “ atelier ” here in 1905, Hermés, Cartier, Ferragamo and Battistoni, a historical Roman atelier of male tailored fashion that was a favorite of the Duke of Windsor.
In Via Borgognona there are other famous names: Ferré, Fendi, Laura Biagiotti, “the queen of cashmere” and Gai Mattiolo, a young Roman fashion designer who has recently entered the elite of famous designer labels. Finally, in Via Frattina, there are the ateliers of Tiffany, Versace and Byblos. Many streets in the old city center are still full of traditional Roman craftsmen’s shops: old-style carpenters and expert restorers are still concentrated in Via dei Cappellari. Via dei Sediari has been famous for hundreds of years for chairs, armchairs and other household objects made from wickerwork. The expert wrought iron forgers’ laboratories can be found in Via degli Orsini. Via Santa Dorotea is the place to go for vases and other painted ceramic pieces.
In Via dei Gigli d’Oro you can find reproductions of antique mosaics. Rome’s antique shops are located in Via dei Coronari, Via Giulia, Via Margutta, Via del Babuino and Via del Pellegrino.