Markets in Rome are a great opportunity to really breathe city life, strolling around the stalls. Looking, touching, getting bargains or just simply buying a souvenir. The markets open at about 9-10 o'clock in the morning and close at sunset. There are several to choose from: here are the main ones.

EVERY SUNDAY:

Porta Portese
Viale Trastevere. From 5.00 to 13.00 The most famous market in Rome. You can find everything there, even though it has recently lost some of its attraction.

Borgo Parioli
Via Tirso, 14. Closed on the fourth Sunday of the month. A large choice of items available: vases, books, jewelry, silver, furniture.

Garage Sale
Piazzale della Marina, 32 About 250 stalls where you can find just about everything. Info 06 5880517

Atelier Ritz
In the halls of the Grand Hotel Parco dei Principi. Info 06.8078189 The chic second-hand market: 80 fashion stalls all with the big designer names.

Pulp Fashion
c/o Fake, via Monte Testaccio 66, times 18.00-24.00 1970s vintage fashion, hippy shirts, vinyl records and punk items.

Fontanella Borghese
Piazza Borghese, from Monday to Saturday. The best market in Rome for books and period prints

FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH:

Ponte Milvio
Lungotevere Capoprati Charming antiques market along the banks of the Tiber: antique furniture, collectors' items.

THIRD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH:

Antiquariato a Testaccio
Piazza S. Maria Liberatrice. Private dealers' market. A varied collection of modern antiques found in Roman attics.

Palaparioli Market
Viale della Moschea. Closed in July and August. The largest antiques exhibition in Rome, with 220 exhibitors.

Soffitta sotto i portici
Piazza Augusto Imperatore. Near to Augustus' Ara Pacis. 100 stalls under the square's porticos that sell collectors' items and modern antiques.

FOURTH SUNDAY OF THE MONTH:
Market in Piazza Verdi
in the heart of the sophisticated Parioli district. Antiques and modern antiques: furniture, miscellaneous items, documents, coins and stamps.
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