Rome's retail is stratified like its ruins: a Testaccio market box selling guanciale, a marble carver on Via Margutta, Bulgari on Via dei Condotti. Three days sorted by trade rather than by postcode, weighted toward workshops that still cut and stitch on site.
Rome's covered market, rebuilt in 2012 under a steel canopy off Via Beniamino Franklin with 103 boxes. Box 66 cures its own guanciale, Box 15 sells pecorino romano DOP by the wedge. Open Mon–Sat 07:00–15:30.
Wood-panelled family deli trading since 1973, ceilings hung with prosciutto and the counter staffed by cutters who hand you samples before you commit. Truffle pâté, pecorino di fossa, aged balsamic. Open 09:00–20:30.
A 500-metre pedestrian run of roughly 40 antique dealers between Piazza Navona and the Tiber, named for the rosary sellers who worked the pilgrim route to St Peter's. Murano glass, gilt frames, 19th-century engravings.
Third-generation leather workshop where the Nepi family cuts and stitches at a bench set in the shop window. Belts from €35, hand-sewn totes €120–260, sandals made to your foot width in a few days.
The 400-metre spine from Piazza di Spagna to Via del Corso: Bulgari at no. 10 since 1905, Gucci, Valentino, and Battistoni's bespoke tailoring behind the courtyard at no. 61A. Doors open 10:00, quiet before noon.
Nine floors of Italian labels in a 2017 conversion of a former cinema block. The basement's glass floor exposes a preserved arch of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct from 19 BC, still carrying water to the Trevi Fountain.
The Danish designer's Monti atelier sells one-off dresses cut from vintage fabric, with alterations pinned and sewn on the spot at no charge. Around twenty pieces hang on the rail at any time. Tue–Sat, closed most of August.
A crooked 300-metre street of secondhand and vintage dealers running from Piazza Pasquino toward Chiesa Nuova. Omero e Cecilia at no. 110 stocks 1960s–80s Italian labels; racks spill onto the cobbles until 19:30.
Rome's Sunday market: roughly 1,000 stalls strung 1.5km along Via Portuense from the Porta Portese gate, running 06:30–14:00 and nothing else all week. Vinyl, army surplus, Murano offcuts, secondhand Levi's.
Enrico Fiorentini's one-room marble workshop, walls tiled floor to ceiling with carved Latin mottoes, on the street where Fellini lived at no. 110. He chisels any phrase you choose into a marble slab while you wait.
The Florentine apothecary founded by Dominican friars in 1221 keeps a Roman branch a block from Piazza Navona. Pomegranate soaps, terracotta pomanders and Acqua della Regina, all boxed in the house ochre livery.
A stationer trading since 1910 beside the Pantheon: Florentine marbled paper by the sheet, leather journals refillable for life, glass dip pens and sealing-wax sets. Open daily 10:00–19:30.