Main shopping areas are listed below. Every shop in the fashionable Via Condotti-Via Sistina area offers a choice of styles, colours and designs rarely matched, but at very high prices. Equally expensive are shops along Via Vittorio Veneto, a street famous for its outdoor caf s. Old books and prints can be bought from bookstalls of Piazza Borghese. Rome's flea market is at Porta Portese in Trastevere on Sunday mornings, selling everything from second-hand shoes to 'genuine antiques'.
Prices tend to be higher than in other major cities.
Florentine jewellery has a particular quality of satin finish called satinato . Much filigree jewellery can also be found. Cameos are another speciality of Florence, carved from exotic shells. In Cagliari it is possible to find artistic copies of bronze statuettes from the Nuraghe period of the Sardinian Bronze Age. In the larger towns such as Naples, Bari, Reggio, Calabria, Palermo and Cagliari there are elegant shops with a whole range of Italian products.