Dress like a Roman without Boutique Prices

San Giovanni is Rome's biggest used and new clothing market

Snuggled up along a stretch of the Aurelian Wall off Via Sannio are the half-covered stalls of the best used clothing and army surplus market in the city.

When my family first moved to Rome in the mid-1980s—but our household luggage sat on a Brooklyn dock for months (some kind of longshoreman's stike)—we ended up re-stocking our wardrobes here.

The pleasant side effect was that, since we were all wearing, in effect, Italian hand-me-downs, we started to blend in much more quickly than if we'd had access to our own American threads.

Off Via Sannio, near San Giovanni in Laterano
Runs Monday to Friday 10am to 1pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm

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