Centro Storico
A throwback to a world without logos, this tiny family-run shop has a handmade glove for every conceivable occasion, from elbow-length silk evening gloves…
Centro Storico
A throwback to a world without logos, this tiny family-run shop has a handmade glove for every conceivable occasion, from elbow-length silk evening gloves…
Centro Storico
Città del Sole is a parent’s dream, a treasure-trove of imaginative toys created to stretch the growing mind rather than numb it. From simple musical…
Centro Storico
In her diminutive family workshop, Elisa Nepi and her team craft beautiful butter-soft leather wallets, bags, belts, keyrings and sandals in elegant…
Centro Storico
This minimalist, all-white fashion boutique is one of a number of independent stores on and around Via del Governo Vecchio. In its austere, gallery-like…
Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
Wilma Silvestre, founder of local label Le Gallinelle, designs elegant clothes with a difference. You can browse her chic, laid-back styles and buy off…
Centro Storico
Eyewear becomes art at this modish boutique on Via del Pellegrino. Known for its avant-garde window displays, often styled by contemporary artists,…
Mercato Campagna Amica al Circo Massimo
Ancient Rome
This weekly farmers market provides a showcase for regional producers from Lazio and central Italy. Stalls sell all manner of edible fare, including…
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
This elegant stained-glass arcade appeared in Alberto Sordi’s 1973 classic film, Polvere di stelle (Stardust), and has since been renamed in his honour…
Trastevere & Gianicolo
Polvere di Tempo, or Dust of Time, is an intriguing place to browse and pick up gifts. Take your pick from lovingly crafted hourglasses, globes and pill…
Centro Storico
In his small, cluttered workshop, master craftsman Aldo Fefè patiently binds books and produces beautifully hand-painted notebooks, boxes, picture frames…
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
Making leather gloves since 1894, this traditional Roman business retains its walls of original glove drawers, which are filled with examples made from…
Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
Featuring quality fabrics and and a chic 1970s-influenced aesthetic, the clothing designed by Betty Piccirilli and David Anav is a hit with Roman women of…
San Giovanni & Testaccio
A hot find for footwear fiends, Etel stocks a carefully curated collection of fashionable women's shoes by mainly Italian labels. Designs range from…
Centro Storico
Located in the same building the company was founded in, Tebro has been keeping Rome's well heeled in household linens and luxurious nightwear since 1867…
Vatican City, Borgo & Prati
With a window bedecked with fresh black truffles, you know you've found a source for Italian foods of the highest order. This traditional shop (note the…
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
Turin-based jeweller Valentina Laganà is known for her contemporary pieces in brass, silver, copper and bronze. Well priced, her rings, earrings,…
Centro Storico
Famed for its antique prints, historic Nardecchia sells everything from 18th-century etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi to more affordable 19th…
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
The trademark of this luxury Italian brand is its rubber-studded loafers – perfect weekend footwear for kicking back at your country estate. There's a…
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
Popular La Rinascente is an upmarket department store with five floors of his and hers fashions, a basement exhibition area and a panoramic food hall…
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
This pretty little boutique sells exquisite designer fashion for bambini, from newborns to teens. It stocks Italian designers in the main, alongside its…
Trastevere & Gianicolo
A lovely bookshop crammed with new and secondhand titles, this is a great place to browse and happen upon a classic, with novels and nonfiction in English…
Roma Liuteria di Mathias Menanteau
Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
A vintage ceramic-tiled wood burner casts a golden glow on this old-fashioned artisanal workshop where French luthier Mathias Menanteau crafts and…
Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
Monti's streets are home to a number of clothing ateliers, and this is one of the best of them. The pieces sold here have an elegant simplicity and are…
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
Now a global brand, this Italian company produces handbags, wallets and suitcases with a distinctive contemporary design. Prices are extremely reasonable…
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
An independent Roman designer, Chiara Baschieri sells age-neutral clothing, featuring quality fabrics, from her small boutique located on one of Rome's…
Vatican City, Borgo & Prati
A vast indoor market in a modern building. Hundreds of stalls sell clothing, food, housewares and fine fabrics. Depending on your needs, it can be one big…
Trastevere & Gianicolo
A perfect pit stop for presents, this tiny workshop produces attractive hand-painted paper-bound boxes, photo albums, recipe books, notepads, photo frames…
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
Rome's most famous couturier, Valentino Garavani, opened his first store on Via dei Condotti in 1960. The brand now sells its creations from this nearby…
Trastevere & Gianicolo
An enchanting perfume shop crammed full of deliciously enticing bottles of scent, including lots of small, lesser-known brands that will delight perfume…
Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
Vintage clothes, accessories and one-off pieces by local designers: this market in the hip 'hood of Monti is well worth a rummage if you're here on a…
Trastevere & Gianicolo
A haven crammed with books – every millimetre of wall space contains English-language fiction and nonfiction (including children's) and travel guides.
Rome
This covered market established in 1926 is one of northern Rome's magnets for fresh produce, from fruit and veg to artisanal cheeses and local meats.
Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
Owner Carlotta has a great eye, and manages to source vintage finds from the 1940s and every subsequent decade to sell in this cute boutique.
Borghetto Flaminio Flea Market
Rome
Rummage through the vast heaps of used (vintage?) and new clothing, housewares and bric-a-brac at this weekly market.
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
Accessory-focused second store of upmarket fashion boutique Gente.
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
A branch of the well-known artisanal jewellery shop that started in Monti.
Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
Fascinating to browse, this clever boutique showcases unique Carmina Campus pieces – primarily bags and jewellery – made from upcycled objects and…
Centro Storico
This speciality boutique is devoted to the small yet mighty chilli pepper. Founder Rita Salvadori sources 17 types of pepper from her farm in Tuscany,…
Ancient Rome
From scholarly art tomes to lavishly illustrated guides, Latin classics and Italian cookbooks, this small bookshop is a mine of Rome-related literature…
Centro Storico
Founded in the 1930s, this family-run stationery boutique is a must for anyone who yearns for the days of handwritten letters. A dizzying selection of…