San Polo & Santa Croce
If you’ve been eyeing up the natty striped T-shirts, devilishly soft winter wool hats and crepe pants sported by Venice’s gondoliers then make a beeline…
Must-see shopping in Mediterranean Europe
San Polo & Santa Croce
Mornings are best to catch the 1930s Heidelberg machine in action, but whenever you arrive, you'll find mementos hot off the proverbial press…
Madrid
The stylish leather bags, wallets, suitcases and other accessories of Salvador Bachiller are a staple of Spanish shoppers. This is leather with a…
Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje
Near the main sweep of beach on the Costa Adeje is this bijou shopping centre with boutiques set around prettily tiled patios and fountains with palms,…
Centro Storico
This speciality boutique is devoted to the small yet mighty chilli pepper. Founder Rita Salvadori sources 17 types of pepper from her farm in Tuscany,…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Add a Venetian eye for colour to a Japanese flair for sculptural fashion, and here you have it: teal mohair tube scarves that float around the collarbone…
Eskişehir
Eskişehir is famous for its meerschaum (a porous white rock also known as sepiolite). It's mined locally and shaped into pipes and other objects. This…
Venice
Impeccably tailored midnight-blue silk-satin dresses with exuberant woolly shoulders showcase not only the skills of sisters Patrizia and Samanta Fiorenza…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Couple Tiziano and Vanessa use a variety of printmaking techniques including silk screen and xylograph to create handmade T-shirts and bags, some with…
İzmir
On the jetty designed by Gustave Eiffel, this modern mall is spacious and stylish but isn't very popular – it's full of empty shops. There’s a cinema…
Centre of Traditional Handcrafts
Ioannina
In the 2000s, Ioannina's famous silversmiths were all relocated from the city centre out to this rather grim concrete hub. In theory you can see artisans…
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Founded in the 1960s and still with its original dark-wood shop fittings, this corner shop specialises in religious artefacts, jewellery and literature…
Ancient Rome
From scholarly art tomes to lavishly illustrated guides, Latin classics and Italian cookbooks, this small bookshop is a mine of Rome-related literature…
Chueca
Salvador Bachiller is a discount outlet for stylish and high-quality leather bags, wallets, suitcases and other accessories. But the leather here is with…
San Polo & Santa Croce
The window display offers a tantalising hint at the custom jewellery this versatile goldsmiths’ atelier can create for you, with original designs that nod…
Chianti
The signage labels this large warehouse as 'Space', but inside it's all Prada and Miu Miu. There's plenty of full-priced new-season stock alongside…
Amalfi
Unless you’re flying long haul, gourmet goodies can make excellent gifts. In this upscale supermarket, among the hanging hams, you’ll find a full…
Chueca
Terrific T-shirts are all that El Tintero sells. So if you’re looking for a colourful camiseta (T-shirt) with Spanish-language slogans that translate as …
San Polo & Santa Croce
Yes, you actually can take a gondola home in your pocket. Anyone fascinated by the models at the Museo Storico Navale will go wild here, amid handmade…
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Aloe vera grows prolifically throughout the Canary Islands (it was discovered in nearby North Africa) and, has been recognised for its healing properties…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Made you look: these Murano glass jewels in bold colours and shapes have the attention-getting powers of traffic lights. Cascades of lilac beads cluster…
Naples
Alfonso Sorrentino is convinced that the objects he chooses to sell from his dusty cavern of bricolage find their way to him, rather than him finding them…
Barcelona
Created out of largely abandoned docks, this buzzing shopping centre is home to 72 stores including youthful Spanish chain Mango and Barcelona-based…
Venice
Expect to fall in lust with these richly hued, contemporary leathergoods. Made by artisans using full-grain Tuscan leather, these coveted butter-soft…
Black Sea Coast
Half a dozen metal-craft shops are closely ranged down a stretch of lane that has been home to coppersmiths for centuries. The one at number 11 is…
Centro Storico
Founded in the 1930s, this family-run stationery boutique is a must for anyone who yearns for the days of handwritten letters. A dizzying selection of…
Venice
Husband-and-wife team Mauro and Antonella graduated from the Architecture Institute in Venice and have never left. They design exquisite objects for the…
Venice
Question: how do you maintain a bella figura (good impression) when high tides are sloshing around your ankles? The answer can be found at Martina Ranaldo…
La Laguna
It's fitting that Encuentro is located along the top shopping street in town as it's without doubt the top Canary Island's women's fashion chain. It was…
Trastevere & Gianicolo
With ties draped over the wooden furniture, this inviting shop resembles the study of an absent-minded professor. But don’t be fooled: these guys know…
Centro Storico
Former costume designer Cinzia's passion for clothes is there for all to see at this, her second-hand clothes shop. Its tunnel-like interior is piled high…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Ziggurats of sun-dried tomatoes, leaning towers of star anise and chorus lines of olive oils draw awestruck foodies to Mascari’s windows. Indoors, chefs…
Murano, Burano & the Northern Islands
Giordano Guarnieri started working with glass in 1946 when he was just nine years old and made his name producing chandeliers. He opened this workshop in…
Milan
Elena Bergnach has been making skirts for more than 15 years. These aren't just any skirts, but skirts with real personality, made with brocade from India…
Salamanca
Although we love the intimacy of old-style Spanish wine shops, they can’t match the selection of Spanish and international wines available at Lavinia,…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Glass menageries don’t get more fascinating than the one created before your eyes by Signor Amadi. Fierce little glass crabs approach pink-tipped coral,…
Salamanca
Whether you’re after a guidebook, a coffee-table tome or travel literature, De Viaje, Madrid’s largest travel bookshop, probably has it. Covering every…
Venice
When an Italian minimalist falls in love with a Murano glass-blower, the result is spare, spirited glass jewellery. Esperienze is a collaborative effort…
Centro Storico
An official club store of AS Roma, one of Rome’s two top-flight football teams. There's an extensive array of Roma-branded kit, including shirts, caps, T…
San Polo & Santa Croce
When you start feeling the effects of all those spritz sessions, pick up some healing herbs at this vintage pharmacy. Adorned with 19th-century woodwork…
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