Shopping hours are as follows; during winter from 9.00 to 13.00 and from 15.30 to 19.30; during summer from 9.00 to 13.00 and from 16.00 to 20.00. Many of the shops in the centre of Rome are open all day from 10.00 to 19.30.

Rome also hosts a number of open-air markets, the more colorful and picturesque  ones being:

• Campo de’ Fiori

Situated in the heart of the old city, in Piazza Campo de' Fiori, it is open from Monday to Saturday to 7.00 to 13.30. Every morning it fills up with various stalls selling fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, dried fruit and legumes and fresh flowers. The excellent gastronomical and bread shops around the piazza completes the range of products available.

• Porta Portese, Via Portuense e Via Ippolito Nievo

Open on Sundays from 6.30 to 14.00, here you can find everything from shoes, dresses, bags, suitcases, camping equipment, bed linen, towels, pots and pans, kitchen utensils, plants, pets, car accessories, cassetes and CDs and old LPs.

• Borghetto Flaminio

Is situated near the Lion A subway stop Flaminia, and it open on Sunday from 10.00 to 18.00. It is a very unusual market where private vendors sell clothes and other various items. With time it has become a well attended "sitting room" where members of roman "society" love to meet up and snap up bargains.