| Shopping in Rome |
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Rome is not a shopping city to compare with London, Paris or New York, but it still has much to satisfy the wealthy or discerning shopper. Best known as one of the world’s finest places for luxury goods, its silks, leather, jewellery, shoes and accessories are of the highest quality, with high fashion, or “alta moda”, also well to the fore. Exclusive names and luxury goods cluster in the grid of streets around Via Condotti, via Frattina, via Borgognona. For those on a tighter budget the key shopping street for clothes, shoes and accessories is via del Corso and to a lesser extent via Nazionale, via del Tritone, via Cola di Rienzo, the areas around Campo de’ Fiori and Trevi Fountain. Antiques shops are concentrated on via del Babuino and via Monserrato, which have breathtaking pieces and prices to match; on via Giulia, whose shops specialize in furniture; and on via dei Coronari, whose workshops once made rosaries for pilgrims en route to St’ Peter’s and now offer items a touch below via del Babuino in quality and cost. Lesser shops and bric-à-brac stores also line in via Margutta, via dei Banchi Nuovi and via Delle Carrozze. Designer clothes: all the top names in men’s and women’s fashion are concentrated around via Condotti (via del Babuino, Piazza di Spagna, via Borgognona and via Frattina). The 18th -century “Farmacia di Santa Maria della Scala” in Trastevere is one of the Europe’s oldest surviving pharmacies. It is adjacent to a 16th-century Carmelite monastery in Piazza Maria della Scala. |
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