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Rome’s Best: Shopping Streets and Markets

The most interesting stores in Rome are in the old center, so
shopping is easy to combine with sightseeing. The stores are
often housed in medieval or Renaissance buildings and their
window displays can be exquisite. Just like storekeepers in past
centuries, traders tend to specialize in one type of merchandise.
Street names often refer to the old tradesmen: locksmiths in
Via dei Chiavari, leather jerkin makers in Via dei Giubbonari,
and chairmakers in Via dei Sediari. Today, antiques merchants
have taken over from the rosary sellers on Via dei Coronari.
The top names in fashion and modern design dominate
the Via Condotti area, and the artisan tradition is still
strong around Campo de’ Fiori and Piazza Navona.
Via Cola di Rienzo
Located close to the Vatican
Via dei Coronari Museums, this long, wide street has
Art Nouveau and antiques the finest food stores and is also
enthusiasts will love good for clothes, books, and gifts.
browsing in the stores that
line this charming street Piazza di
just northwest of Piazza Spagna
Navona. But be See inset
prepared for high Piazza map
prices as most della
of the items Vatican Rotonda
are imported.
Piazza
Navona

Janiculum
Campo Capitol
de’Fiori
Via del Pellegrino
Book and art stores
abound here next to
working artisans in the
historic center. Do Trastevere
not miss the mirror-
lined alley near
Campo de’ Fiori.
Aventine

Via dei Cappellari
This narrow medieval street
is a great place for watching
furniture restorers and other
artisans plying their crafts in
the open air.

Porta Portese
You can buy anything from
antiques to a tin whistle at
Trastevere’s Sunday morning
flea market (see p345).

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