| 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.
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