Flea Markets

If you've been in Rome for a while, you may have become accustomed to the Sunday routine of flea market hunting and lunch. It's an alternative to a weekend away, and it's practiced from October to June, when it gets too hot to stay in town.
The markets are staggered so that most Sundays, one or the other is in full swing, even through the winter rains.

Testaccio in Festa
A special market selling hand-crafted items, collectibles and regional food specialities.
Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice (Testaccio)
Sunday, May 28 through Sunday, June 4, 5-11:30 pm
Borghetto Flaminio
Just outside the gates of Piazza del Popolo, the coming and goings of pedestrian traffic, couples out for a Sunday morning stroll and double parked cars give clue that something is going on behind two low-slung buildings with warehouse facades:great antique and modern finds of vintage clothing, handbags, sunglasses, crystal and silver objects, fab bijoux (some pieces are signed) and finely crafted semi-precious jewelry; rings, brooches, necklaces, earrings, bracelets. The entrance fee cost just a little more than your morning cappuccino: €1,60.
Via Flaminia - Piazzale della Marina, 32 tel 06 588 0517
Sundays 10 am – 7pm
Villa Gloria
One hundred vendors set up their tables in front of the park that fronts Villa Gloria, selling everything from light bulb changers to caviar dishes. Friends swear they’ve found the best antique silverware here, and we know for a fact that Parioli teenagers come here to sell their outgrown sportswear with status labels like Woolrich or Melville. Old and new, collectibles, antiques, handi-crafts, clothes.
Villa Glori along Viale Maresciallo Pilsudski Tel. 06. 854 1461
Second Sunday of the month. (Parioli)
Ponte Milvio
Along the Tiber, at the spot where Constantine defeated Maxentius in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, a market of comic proportions takes place once a month, stretching from one bridge to the next. What’s on sale is mostly antique, or at least old — everything from major pieces of furniture to small pieces of jewelry. You’ll find porcelain, silver, furniture, coral, cocktail glasses from the thirties, icons from the Balkans. There is always a lot of costume jewelry. It’s hard to imagine how one country has managed to amass so much of it.
Below the Lungotevere from Ponte Milvio to Ponte Duc d’Aosta tel. 06 907 7312 Saturday-Sunday, first weekend of the month. (Flaminio)
Porto Portese
This is the biggest flea market in Rome, and one of the biggest in Europe, where you can find a staggering assortment of goods, from Murano lamps to cheap underwear to auto parts. Go early and watch your purse. It gets absolutely mobbed. Enter at Piazza Ippolito Nievo if you are looking for antique furniture, lamps, curiosities, rugs, furniture old lace and embroideries. Enter from Piazza Porto Portese if you are in the market for pots and pans, clothing, shoes, housewares. It’s a bit overwhelming but it’s fun because you never know what you might find,so long as you’re willing to press on through the crowd to find it. Via Portuense from Piazza Porto Portese to Piazza Ippolito Nievo. Tel. 06.582 33114 Every Sunday, dawn to 2 pm (Trastevere)
Piazza Mazzini
In the gardens surrounding a little lake, about 80 or so vendors sell antiques, handicrafts, paintings, collectibles.
Piazza Mazzini tel. 06. 904 426 23
Second weekend of the month, Friday –Sunday (Prati)
Via Sannio
The tents and sidewalks along Via Sannio are alive with merchants selling clothes, shoes and accessories at prices well below retail. You’ll find everything from a designer fur coat or a cashmere sweater to a second hand nightgown or a vintage dress, as well as socks, wallets, bedspreads and curtains.
Just behind the Church of San Giovanni in Laterano (San Giovanni)
Monday-Friday, 8 am –2 pm; Saturday 8 am –5 pm
Soffitto Sotto i Portici
The name means attic under the colonade, and a lot of what you find here could really have come from somebody’s attic. No large pieces or furniture, but small collectibles. Some of the things we’ve found: antique binoculars, cameras from the early 19th century, brooches from the 18th, a superbly maintained collection of sunglasses from the early 20th, the antique tools of an artisan cabinetmaker, and picture frames from the 17th century (mostly French) sold by a friend who finds and restores them.
Piazza Augusto Imperatore tel. 06. 360 05345
First and third Sunday of the month. (Trident)
Piazza Verdi
Held in an enormous square in upscale Parioli, this market is known for its eyeball-numbing selection of small antiques: dishes, candlesticks, jewelry. Some of it is kitsch, but some of it is beautiful and well-priced. A handful of intruders sell new hats, clothing, kilims, handicrafts, regional foods, but it’s mostly vintage merchandise.
Piazza Verdi tel. 06.855 2773
Fourth Sunday of the month.

Anticaglie a Villa Glori
Tables are set up in front of the park at Villa Glori, selling everything from crafts to antiques to bric-a-brac.
Viale Maresciallo Pidlsudsky (Parioli) tel 329 5639352
Sunday, 8 am - 8 pm