This area comes as a delight to anyone who likes jewellery and looking out for real fashion bargains. The area is crammed with secondhand shops. The place is beautiful by night in the months between May and October. This is when these narrow shopping streets will be lit with torches. You will enjoy taking a night stroll with your partner here. Peep into the antiques fair which remain open even late. Via Del Governo Vecchio also has a number of contemporary as well as traditional boutiques.
And, after you are done with shopping in the area, it will be worth your time if you drop by the areas of Via Giulia and Via del Monserrato which are sited in close proximity. These two places have a large number of antique shops as well as numerous art galleries.
You can find almost everything in these well-known commercial areas– from books, music stores, department stores, boutiques and shoe shops. There are other places where you can shop for some of the best quality leather goods including bags and leather goods.
If you can afford it, get to this area at the base of the popular Spanish Steps. It is exclusive but at the same time is expensive also. You can mainly spot "high class" people shopping here for their goods. There are quite a few elegant shops here where you can catch hold of everything that is in-vogue in the markets right from popular names like Armani to Prada.
Now if you do not have some serious shopping in your mind, but would love some window shopping on your Rome city break, this is a great place to start with. Most of the shopping areas here including Via Condotti, Via Borgognona, Via del Babuino and Via Margutta are filled with interesting shops and art galleries as well.
This is another busy shopping area, where traffic can often pay spoil-sport. The street is very long and crabbed with shops of all genre-coins, clothing, books, music, household goods, food and wine and street corner stands.
If you like to shop in peace with not many people bumping into you while you are seriously shopping and thinking where you ought to spend money, the Via Sistina is a good choice. You can find this area towards the top of the Spanish Steps. The area has many tiny individual shops which contributes to making it a good area to shop.
Shopping along this wide boulevard near Stazione Termini will not cost you much on your pocket. You can think of shopping souvenirs as well as cute gifts for your people back at home. The museum shop in Palazzo delle Esposizioni is one place which is worth your visit. You can spot this huge beaux art marble exhibition building almost halfway doen the street.
Officially known as Via dei Condotti, this should be the first place you head for, if you love shopping in Rome. A swanky shopping street, visitors of all genus love. Via Condotti begins at the end of the Spanish steps. The atelier of Bulgari which sprang up in the area in the year of 1905, is what shot the place to fame. Today, it is flagship stores and design houses which unfold before you and greet you all along the way. Armani, Gucci and Prada are among the many popular ones here.
An exclusive area in the whole of Italy you shop, you can find more window-shoppers and people-watchers than people who are actually out there to shop.
Tucked away in the street is Caffe Greco. There are few Romans who have not heard of this cafe and few visitors who have not visited it. This famous cafe has seen visitors like Goethe, Byron and Keats.