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Apple Store Rome grand opening photos

Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 09:10 AM EST

Macitynet has posted a gallery of the grand opening of the Apple Store at ROMAEST mall, the first Apple Retail Store in mainland Europe.

"This morning a huge number of fans, probably around 800 coming from all around Italy (and from other European countries) formed a long queue, first ouside the mall entrance in a parking lot, and then just out the store entrance, patiently waiting for the doors to open," Macitynet reports.

"After the countdown went to zero, the Apple Store employees lined up in a row cheered customers coming inside," Macitynet reports. "The store gave away 1000 commemorative T-shirts - running out of them within the first hour."

View the gallery here.

LoopRumors offered live coverage of the event in Rome. View the photo and video updates here.

Apple Store, Roma Est info: http://www.apple.com/it/retail/romaest/

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Mar 31, 07 - 08:30 am Comment from: glad cow

Hey, looks like one of them Apple store thingies!

Mar 31, 07 - 09:04 am Comment from: Hanz und Franz

90,000,000 people in Germany.
1/3 the population of the US. All in the size of the state of Oregon.
Number of Apple stores in Germany?
Zero.

Mar 31, 07 - 09:04 am Comment from: WiseGuy

Yea, FSCK YOU John Scully, loser, Darth Vader, Judas ass.

Mar 31, 07 - 09:13 am Comment from: twilightmoon@mac.com

Hanz, I can't imagine it will be that way for long. I believe Apple is planning to open up between 30 to 40 new stores this year up from their current about 170. I think about a third of those new stores will be overseas. This was the first mainland European store..

They are very picky about their locations and they put real time into where they open stores. Germany seems like an obvious location, but how and where, and lots of details, n such.

Mar 31, 07 - 09:29 am Comment from: twilightmoon@mac.com

Did anyone on here go to this store opening? Anyone have a comment on how it went?

Mar 31, 07 - 10:34 am Comment from: Rome

Twilightmoon, there were so much people awating from 2 am of yesterday!!!
the bad thing was that there weren't any Apple TV avaible to buy, only one to see :(

Mar 31, 07 - 01:00 pm Comment from: La Pomme

Paris next, please!

Mar 31, 07 - 05:47 pm Comment from: TowerTone

I know what I'll be doing 'when in Rome'...

Mar 31, 07 - 06:01 pm Comment from: twilightmoon@mac.com

TT:
" know what I'll be doing 'when in Rome'..."

Visit the colloseum? or perhaps the vatican?

Ancient fountains and statue? Architecture your thing?

Perhaps the amazing local cuisine?

Mar 31, 07 - 08:54 pm Comment from: Switcher '05

sweet! now lets see stores in sweden, france, germany, spain etc

Mar 31, 07 - 09:25 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Twilight
Whose got time for all that crap-they have an APPLE STORE!!!!!
(actually, I would rather just rent a villa room in Tuscany)

Mar 31, 07 - 11:04 pm Comment from: Drunk Cheney

looks like any mall in any town USA. It that a good thing?

Glad, however, to see Apple expanding.

Apr 01, 07 - 12:19 am Comment from: Jedd

Meanwhile, can we get an update on those Dell stores? How are they doing

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