The Best Souvenir & Gift Shopping in Rome

When visiting Rome, you’ll probably want to bring home something other than the miniature Colosseums sold on every corner. These shops sell souvenirs worth the suitcase space, from Murano glass and original photographs to Italian coffee, herbal cosmetics and handmade Christmas ornaments.

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Glassy Venezia

Via Principe Amedeo, 7 (Termini Station / Teatro dell’Opera)
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Located between Termini and Repubblica metro stops, this cozy little boutique offers a wide variety of accessories and home decor made out of the authentic Venetian Murano Glass. The Guetta family brought the iconic Murano trademark and opened their store here in Rome over two decades ago. Here, you can find a unique jewelry piece or a decorative artwork of your liking to bring back as a memorable gift. Bold and vibrant colors of Murano glass are one of the signature Italian cultural attributes. 

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Astrologo Silverware & Jewelry

Via Buonarroti, 20 (Vittorio Emanuele); Via Merulana, 10 (Santa Maria Maggiore)
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Equal parts classic jeweler and gift shop, Astrologo offers a little bit of everything under one roof. Inside, fine gold chains and personalized silver pieces sit alongside religious items, hand-painted ceramics, and gifts for life’s milestones. Whether you’re designing a custom charm bracelet or choosing a keepsake box, it’s the kind of place where you drop in to browse and leave with a piece of Rome that feels truly personal.

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Trevimage

Via della Rotonda, 10 (Pantheon)
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Just around the corner from the Pantheon, this small family-run studio is where photographer and designer Carlo De Gori sells his own pictures of Rome. His style is easy to spot: classic statues and monuments brought to life with bursts of color, paint splashes and graphic overlays. Every photo is an original, some in numbered editions, and comes in all sizes and formats, from small prints to large pieces on canvas, plexiglass or metal, which can be customized on request. Too big for your suitcase? Trevimage also ships internationally.

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Castroni

Via Cola di Rienzo, 196/198 (Prati); Via Frattina, 79 (Centro Storico); Via Flaminia, 28/30/32 (Flaminio); and more
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When visiting Italy, the food is definitely something you’re going to remember. At Castroni you’ll find some of the best Italian products to take home with you. Their lovely selection of quality and well-packaged products include coffee, tea, sweets, jams, sauces, olive oils, wines and much more. This is the perfect place for foodies to find treats to keep Italy alive after the holiday ends.

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Elvis Lives

Via di S. Francesco a Ripa, 27 (Trastevere)
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In Rome’s lively Trastevere neighborhood, Elvis Lives is a quirky concept store that blends rock ‘n’ roll with Roman-inspired design. Far from a typical tourist shop, it stocks original graphic tees, bold socks, pins, tote bags and pop-culture novelties. A good stop for music fans and design lovers looking for a Roman souvenir that isn’t the usual one.

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Antica Erboristeria Romana

Via di Torre Argentina 15 (Largo Argentina)
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Rooted in Italian heritage, Antica Erboristeria Romana combines traditional herbalism with pharmaceutical expertise. Inspired by Italian nature and wellness, they create natural beauty and personal care products using specialized botanical ingredients. It’s a perfect stop for travelers looking to take home Italian herbal cosmetics, natural skincare, and botanical wellness gifts.

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Spazio Decore

Via di S. Chiara, 59/A (Pantheon)
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Located a few steps from the Pantheon, Spazio Decore is a boutique that doubles as a creative showcase for local artists and emerging talents. The collection highlights original fine art prints, crafts, clothing, and design objects that draw inspiration from Rome’s neighborhood culture and street art scene, making it a must-visit destination for travelers looking to take home a genuine piece of the Eternal City.

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Sempre Natale

Via della Scrofa, 93 (Navona/Pantheon)
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If you decorate a Christmas tree every year, this is the souvenir shop for you. A few minutes’ walk from Piazza Navona, on Via della Scrofa, “Sempre Natale” (meaning “Always Christmas”) is the only shop in Italy entirely dedicated to glass Christmas ornaments, and it’s open all year round. Here you’ll find over a thousand vintage-style decorations, mouth-blown and hand-painted by master artisans in Italy, Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. The shop also makes its own Rome-inspired pieces.

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Sant’Eustachio il Caffè

Piazza Sant’Eustachio, 82 (Navona/Pantheon)
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Less than 200 meters from the Pantheon, this café is known for serving some of the best coffee in Rome, so it’s worth stopping in for one of its signatures, like the Gran Caffè. Afterward, browse the coffee-themed souvenirs, from bags of Sant’Eustachio beans to moka pots, cups, tote bags and sweets. If you run out of time or want to keep the ritual going at home, they also ship worldwide through their online shop.

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Booktique

Via della Stelletta, 17 (Navona/Pantheon)
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Tucked away close to the Pantheon, Booktique is a multi-brand concept store that invites visitors to slow down and enjoy a thoughtful dose of retail therapy. It features an inspired interior showcasing a curated selection of books alongside fashion, art, and design objects. Beyond reading material, Booktique is a destination for original souvenirs and creative gifts to take home, from handcrafted ceramics and artistic posters to custom postcards and magnets.

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Emporio Centrale

Largo del Teatro Valle, 1 (Argentina/Pantheon)
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Just steps from Largo Argentina, you’ll find Emporio Centrale, a charming shop with classic Italian designs. The store offers a collection of everyday objects ranging from kitchenware and cosmetics to timeless stationery sourced exclusively from historic Italian manufacturers. Whether you are looking for houseware or elegant city-inspired keepsakes, it is the perfect spot to pick up a meaningful souvenir with authentic Italian craftsmanship to bring home with you.

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Porta Portese Flea Market

Piazza di Porta Portese (Trastevere/Marconi)

If you like flea markets, this is where you can find something unique and well-priced. This Sunday flea market is huge, the biggest in Rome. Here you’ll find anything from leather jackets and Italian silk ties, to books and antiques. Visit in the early morning and spend a few hours here experiencing another side of Roman life while searching for something unique to take home with you.

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Authentic silver, custom engravings, and gifts in the Esquilino neighborhood

Established in 1997, Argenteria Astrologo is a family-run boutique offering fine gold and sterling silver jewelry, silver icons, and customized Italian gifts. Located in Rome’s Esquilino neighborhood, the business operates two locations: its original historic shop on Via Buonarroti 20 and a second shop near the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on Via Merulana 10. Combining traditional craftsmanship with modern design, it serves as a go-to destination for authentic Roman keepsakes.

Near the entrance, you’ll find modern jewelry for men and women. Further inside, display cases and stacks of wooden drawers hold gold and silver rings, charms, necklaces and earrings. Everything is sourced directly from Italian manufacturing centers and reflects the country’s tradition of metalwork.

A major highlight for shoppers is Astrologo’s express on-the-spot engraving service, which allows custom dates, initials, or messages to be etched onto rings, watch backs, and pendants in just a few minutes. For non-EU tourists, the boutique also offers tax-free shopping on purchases over €70, allowing visitors to easily claim their VAT refund at the airport.

Art, Roman Monuments and Silver Gifts Fit for Embassies

Besides wearable accessories, Argenteria Astrologo carries a huge inventory of fine silver and gold artwork. Its religious collection includes detailed plaques and wearable pendants depicting the Virgin Mary, the Pope, traditional crosses, and more available in gold, sterling silver, or mixed metals to suit everyone’s preference.

The store also carries framed silver reliefs of Rome’s iconic monuments, such as the Colosseum and Piazza San Pietro. These pieces are purchased by institutions such as the Italian Ministry of the Interior and several foreign embassies.

For those who love unique home decor and small treasures, the store’s shelves are filled with hand-painted ceramics, decorative tableware, photo frames, and trinkets galore. The shop also specializes in milestone gifts and custom favors for graduations, First Communions and weddings.

Argenteria Astrologo is located at Via Buonarroti and is open Monday through Saturday from 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM (closed Sundays). Whether you’re looking for a custom-engraved charm or an authentic piece of Italian silver, it offers a quality alternative to standard souvenir shops.

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Over 70 Masterpieces Bring Colour, Geometry and Sound to Life at Kandinsky’s Exhibition at Palazzo Bonaparte

From September 15, 2026 to February 14, 2027, Rome’s Palazzo Bonaparte hosts one of the year’s most significant cultural exhibitions dedicated to Vassily Kandinsky, the father of abstract art. Produced and organized by Arthemisia in collaboration with Paris’s Centre Pompidou and curated by Angela Lampe, the exhibition brings over 70 iconic works to Rome for his first major retrospective in the city in over 25 years. With the Centre Pompidou preparing for a temporary closure for restoration, Rome offers visitors a rare chance to view masterpieces that rarely leave Paris.

Divided into five sections across two floors, the exhibition traces Kandinsky’s complete human and artistic transformation through different political climates, theoretical breakthroughs, and personal relationships.

The first section covers his formative years from 1866 to 1907. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky was not originally on a path toward art. He pursued a career in law and political economics at the University of Moscow before making the radical decision at age 30 to abandon academia and move to Munich to study painting.

This section reveals how two decisive experiences were the reason for this shift: seeing Claude Monet’s Haystacks, where he realized colors could evoke emotion without representing tangible objects, and hearing Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Bolshoi Theatre, suggested that painting could function like music. On display here are early paintings like Old Town II (1902) and Schwabing, Winter Sun (1901), alongside folklore-inspired pieces such as Song (Song of the Volga) (1906), which blends Slavic costumes and viking ships against an Ottoman-esque backdrop.

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The next section explores his breakthrough period in Murnau and the founding of Der Blaue Reiter. Settling in the Bavarian Alps, Kandinsky’s natural style turned into broad brushstrokes and vibrant hues of color. A major highlight of this section – and one of the exhibition’s most significant achievements – is a dedicated focus on Gabriele Münter. Long overshadowed in art history as simply Kandinsky’s partner, Münter is presented here as an extraordinary, independent artist of German Expressionism. Exhibited in Italy for the first time, her work reveals a voice defined by simple forms, bold black outlines, and saturated colors because Münter painted what she felt, not what she saw. 

The exhibition showcases their joint travel sketchbooks from Holland, Tunisia, and Rapallo, where both artists observed scenes side-by-side yet developed very different visual styles. A standout piece by Münter on display is Dragon Fight (1913), adapted from a small Russian folk sculpture kept in the Munich apartment she shared with Kandinsky. Through intense colors and heavy contours, Münter transformed the scene into a powerful symbol for the struggles faced by avant-garde artists. The section also details her legacy during the Nazi regime, when she secretly hid many Der Blaue Reiter masterpieces from being destroyed. Beside her works, visitors experience Kandinsky’s dialogue with composer Arnold Schönberg, illustrating how musical dissonance inspired his early abstract masterpieces like The Black Arch (1912) and Picture with a Red Spot (1914).

Continuing on, the third section documents his return to Revolutionary Russia. Forced to flee Germany at the outbreak of World War I, his paintings were strictly limited to abstract graphic prints in 1915. Following his marriage to Nina Andreievskaia in 1917, he briefly returned to figurative work as seen in Nina and Tatiana on the Veranda (1917). Exposure to Suprematist and Constructivist artists pushed his art toward geometric styles and primary palettes, with In Grey (1919) as a prime example.

Concluding the first floor, the exhibition transitions into his years teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau (1922–1933). As the director of the mural painting workshop, Kandinsky embraced what he termed his “cold phase”. Hanging near the end of the first floor is the centerpiece of this era, Yellow-Red-Blue (1925), a composition in which shapes and primary colors are arranged according to an almost musical logic.

Moving up to the second floor, visitors are able to explore the interactive stations and his late years in exile. The floor begins with an interactive wall dedicated to Bauhaus theory, where visitors can physically arrange primary-colored blocks (yellow, red, blue) into geometric shapes (triangle, square, circle) based on their personal perception. Just next to this wall is a listening display featuring a selection of the 95 preserved gramophone records from Vassily and Nina’s personal collection. Putting on the provided headphones lets visitors sample the couple’s musical taste, spanning Russian folk songs, Bach, Handel, Stravinsky, and 1920s foxtrots.

The final section covers his exile in Paris following the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi pressure. Living in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Kandinsky’s style shifted from rigid geometry to biomorphic forms inspired by the microscopic world, showcased in late paintings like Composition IX (1936) and Sky Blue (1940). Near the end of the second-floor gallery is a floor-to-ceiling mirrored room projecting geometric shapes, lines, and colors that allow guests to step directly inside a living Kandinsky composition. The exhibition concludes as the path guides you into a gift shop filled with art prints, mini-books, candles, and souvenirs before leading back down to the first floor. 

Plan to spend roughly 60 to 90 minutes exploring the galleries, audio stations, and interactive sections. Running through February 14, 2027, this immersive experience is a must-see on Rome’s cultural calendar.

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