Starbucks will open a new outlet in Rome on Thursday, not far from the Vatican, as the American multinational coffee chain continues its expansion in Italy.
Uniqlo will open its first store in Rome's Galleria Alberto Sordi on Via del Corso, a key boulevard in the city's historical heart, in the spring of next year.
Before I traveled to Milan, nearly everyone I told advised me to lower my expectations “Milan is the most boring city in Italy,” they said. I was about to go and spend seven full days there, so I boarded the plane, guarded, unsure what to expect. Yet, for what is famously described as