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                <title>Galeria M.A.D</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The MAD stands for moda, architettura and design, and it's great for all of these. The clothes - women's only - are a delight: they're fun and modern as well as being elegant, and amazingly, they're not hugely expensive. It makes it hard not to fill up your shopping bag. Everything's made in Italy, and the designers, Francesca and Paola, are always at the shop to welcome clients. There's also a space for artists, photographers, jewellers, and there's usually an exhibition of some sort going on. It's well worth a visit. I love it.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Almost Corner Bookshop</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is the best English language bookshop in Rome. The owner Dermot O'Connell is a great source of information about the fantastic selection of books he stocks and will also be able to tell you where and where not to go. If you need a guide book, a good summer read, an Italian themed read or want to choose from his wide selection of non-fiction titles you must visit via del Moro 45. He also stocks some set books if you need something if you are studying in Rome. I love it!!!!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mado</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Interesting and vintage shopping. Warm service and a great place to get clothing and accessories that you wont see anywhere else.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Daseia Music Bookshop</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Charming little bookshop filled to the ceiling with hard to find scores and music books. Don't be fooled by its size, they even host a grand piano. The back room is both a cafè serving gourmet coffee drinks and wine, and a miniature concert hall displaying the work of local artists. Also noticed for their one-of-a-kind recycled and handpainted furnitures and off-beat concerts with a cult following. Concerts draw the attraction of hundreds including famous personalities from the neighbourhood, despite the shop seating about 50 people. Located in Trastevere and not hard to find, just look for the crowd gathering on the doorsteps and listening to live music from street at night.]]></description>
                
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                <title>AS Roma Shop</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[In Italy, the blackmarket football merchandise is the more frequently available - even outside stadiums! The handiest store is at Piazza Colonna on the left as you walk north on Via del Corso. It is also a ticket office for games in the Stadio Olimpico but make sure to bring your passport for ID.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Porta Portese Flea Market</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Out in Trastevere, Porta Portese flea market is exactly what you'd hope for: a noisy, bustling mass of stalls and animated throngs of people.<br><br>Held every Sunday morning (and you'd best get there early), you can pick up practically anything there if you're prepared to wrestle with a stallholder over it!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bibli</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This great little cafe/bookshop is what all cafes in Rome should be like. Not perhaps as achingly scenic as some other cafes in Rome, it's nevertheless a good bet for a coffee, a slice of cake and a browse through the books.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Too much</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It's the king of kitsch in Rome.  For all your hard-to-find knick-nacks and crazy gifts, this is the only place to go in Rome. On three floors, it's a splash of fun and colour in Rome, with a funny staff and loud music. It's open every day until 1am - kids will love it.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Modern-day Subura</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Traditionally a dirty, noisy and over-populated area of Rome just north of the forum between the Viminale and Esquilino hills. Rather than stray dogs, vagrants and ladies of the night, these days you are more likely to find locals sharing a slice of everyday Rome. Even though it’s a stone’s throw from the forum, these few streets feel like a village with a history all of their own. If it's genuine Rome you're after, this is the place to see it.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Via Nazionale</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is a great street for shopping, especially Frette, for bedding, and Kolby, for menswear.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tad Concept Store</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A department store but not as we know it. This being Italy, Tad is a super-slick joy of a shop with beautiful displays of home-ware, furniture, perfume and designer clothes. Makes John Lewis look like Woolies.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Trastevere street market</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Every Sunday there is a street market in Tastevere which is great fun. It covers four or five blocks and you can get everything from clothes and books to DVDs and statues. Everyone in our family could find something different and exciting and we have two nice oil paintings in our living room which we bought for less that £4 each.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Trastevere Quarter</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This part of Rome is much quieter and on a smaller scale than much of the main part of the city. It's on the west side of the Tiber and south of the Vatican and has many small restaurants and boutiques - a few too many perhaps. It's a little reminiscent of Florence and the narrow cobbled streets still contain many picturesque old houses.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Clothes</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The cut of Italian clothes will flatter you as no other. Via Condotti is where most of the big designer names are to be found. But excellent clothes for less money can be found along Via Frattina, which runs parallel to Via Condotti, on nearby Via Campo Marzio and, further afield, on Via Cola di Rienzo and Via Po.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Al Sogono, Toyshop</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you are travelling with small children go to the toyshop Al Sogono at the northern end of Piazza Navone. It is a magical location especially for small girls. The staff are very helpful and patient.]]></description>
                
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