Where to shop for Christmas presents in Rome during the 2019 holiday season.
Christmas shopping in Rome need not be a stressful experience, with gift ideas for everybody if you know where to look and...
Best Christmas Markets in Rome
Rome's Christmas markets, both traditional and alternative, create a festive atmosphere in the capital each December. Here is a selection of the city's best markets offering original present ideas dur...
Rome police close Christmas market in Piazza Navona
Rome's Befana market shut down due to safety risk.
The Befana market in Piazza Navona, long a feature of the Christmas season in Rome, has been closed down by the city's police.
The closure relate...
Primark seeks managers for new Rome store.
Primark, the Irish low-cost fashion chain, is set to open an outlet in Rome in 2020.
The company is currently seeking managers for its "5,000-sqm store"...
Post-Thanksgiving sales in Rome on Black Friday 2019.
Black Friday, the American custom dedicated to shopping at hugely-discounted prices the day after Thanksgiving, is slowly being embraced by shops...
Rinascente gives €3 million to redo Rome streets
Rinascente sponsors redevelopment of two streets in central Rome.The Italian department chain Rinascente will finance the redevelopment of Via del Tritone and Via dei Due Macelli, the two streets whic...
Rome’s summer sales begin on 6 July
Rome's summer 2019 sales last until 17 August.Summer sales in Rome and throughout the Lazio region begin officially on Saturday 6 July with discounted clothes, shoes and accessories on offer for the f...
Rome's Metropolitan cinema to be redeveloped
Metropolitan to be redeveloped as shops, offices and 99-seater cinema.
Rome's former Metropolitan cinema site is to be redeveloped thanks to a public-private project agreed between the city and the p...
Ikea opens store at Eataly in Rome
Ikea Eataly Roma launches store beside Rome's Ostiense train station.
Swedish affordable furniture retailer Ikea has joined forces with high-end Italian food emporium Eataly to open the Ikea Eataly R...
Amazon Prime Now offers online grocery shopping in Rome
Amazon Prime Now offers Rome residents home delivery of groceries within an hour.
Amazon Prime Now customers in Rome can shop online for more than 8,000 food and household products from the PAM Panor...
Post-Christmas sales begin in Rome and Lazio on 5 January 2018.
The post-Christmas sales season begins in Rome and throughout Lazio on 5 January, running until 28 February.
Shoppers are expected t...
Rinascente returns to Rome centre
Historic department store makes a comeback in central Rome.
Rinascente, the Italian department store whose former flagship base on Via del Corso was taken over by Spanish retail giant Zara seven year...
Shop closures and falling sales in Rome
600 Rome businesses closed their doors in the first six months of 2017, on top of the 2,000 that shut down in the capital last year, according to Italian business association Confesercenti.
The incre...
Rome’s summer sales start on 1 July
Shoppers should be wary of discounts more than 50 per cent.
Summer sales in Rome and throughout the Lazio region begin officially on Saturday 1 July with discounted clothes, shoes and accessories o...
Sales begin in Rome on 5 January.
The post-Christmas sales season begins in Rome and throughout Lazio on 5 January, running until 15 February.
The prices on items for sale must be indicated clea...
