Bernasconi
Largo di Torre Argentina 1. (C3).
Famous café beside the Argentina theatre.
Café de Paris
Via Veneto 90. (D2).
Famous sidewalk café
Caffè Greco
Via Condotti. (C2).
In the main street of fashion shops, just beneath The Spanish Steps.
It is the best known café in Rome, founded in 1760, and has ever since been the haunt of writers and artists. H. C. Andersen was there, Berlioz, Browning, Goethe, Tennyson, Thackeray and Wagner. Local people drink their coffee standing in the small front room, and travellers sitting down in the narrow back room.
Canova
Piazza del Popolo 16. (C1).
Famous sidewalk café
Colombia
Piazza Navona 88. (C3).
Famous sidewalk café
Doney
Via Veneto 145. (D2).
Famous sidewalk café
Om Shanti
Piazza Campo dei Fiori. (B3).
Famous sidewalk café. Probably the best coffee in Rome.
Rosati
Piazza del Popolo 5a. (C1).
Famous sidewalk café
Sant’Eustachio
Piazza Sant’Eustachio. (C3).
Famous sidewalk café
Tre Scalini
Piazza Navona 28. (B3).
Famous sidewalk café
Azienda Agricola
Vicolo della Torretta 3. (C2).
A tiny shop in the old center, with many types of olive oil, truffle paté and other delicacies.
Cisterino Cooperativa
Vicolo del Gallo 20. (B3).
A cheese shop near Campo de’Fiori, with many special cheeses, such as ewe and buffalo cheese.
Rizzoli
Largo Chigi 15. (C2).
The largest book shop in Rome has many English and other foreign books.
Via dei Capellari
(B3).
Furniture restorers and other craftsmen work out in the open in this alley in the old center.
Via dei Condotti
(C2).
Via dei Condotti runs from the Spanish Steps to Via del Corso. It is the axis of the fashion shops district.
This quarter of baroque buildings has overtaken Via Veneto as the fashion street in town. Almost all known Italian fashion houses have shops there, and some of the most famous are directly on the Via dei Condotti.
Via del Pellegrino
(B3).
Book shops and art shops cluster in this street near Campo de’Fiori.
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© Jónas Kristjánsson
