Outlet Shopping, Italian Style

As we have mentioned before Italians love getting all dressed up and showing of their finest threads on an evening stroll. Some of my earliest memories of travelling to Rome to visit with family revolve around packing my bags. I had to have clothes for lounging around the house in or sun bathing in, and then I had to make sure I had my smart fancy clothes to head out in even if this was just popping over to the corner shop!

Understandably, while sightseeing in Rome all most poeple are concerned with is what will keep you cool and comfortable. However, we are in Italy, where fashion rules above all else. After all, only in Italy will you find that you may not have a car or even a roof over your head, but if you have a designer suit that's all that matters! Well folks obtaining that designer suit has just gotten a tad bit easier, and not a moment too soon-the cost of dressing in high fashion can be downright outrageous!

The Castelromano outlet shopping center outside Rome is a Mecca for discount shoppers, set in a reproduction style that echoes that of the great Roman Empire. It boasts 110 quality high end label stores ranging from Asics, Bruno Magli, Calvin Klein and Diesel to Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino and Roberto Cavalli. The discounts are not only on last season's goods, you also may be lucky enough to pick up a discount on current season stock. Discounts range between 30% to 70% and there is even an onsite alteration service to mend anything that happens to be a size to big or a bit too long!

The outdoor mall itself has the feel of walking around a perfect little village, with nice boulevard style walks with impressive window displays facing on to it, so even window shopping is a treat. To relax and cool down in between shopping or even to just sit and ogle at all your new purchases there are plenty of options to chose from in the line of refreshments.

The centre itself is not hard to reach with a shuttle service running from Piazza Barberini in the heart of Rome to Castel Romano. The service departs Monday to Thursday with departure times of either 9.15am or 2.15pm. The return trip is 1pm or 6pm. The schedules are devised to still leave a half day open for sightseeing in Rome. On Saturdays and Sundays there is only the one trip and it departs t 9.15am and returns at 1pm. Arrangements can be made for a hotel pick up if organized the day before the shopping trip, see here for more details. The centre is only 15k south of the suburb of EUR so is reachable by car too.

Castelromano offers everything that you would expect to find in a regular shopping mall, including child care facilities, ATM and even a huge FREE car park! With the heat of Rome it can be too hard to find the energy to go shopping in the centre so Castleromano with its coastal breeze makes for the perfect place to spend the day shopping and of course you’re getting everything on discount so it’s even better in these recessionary times.

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