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Women's Clothing Rome

52 Reviews Starting at the Spanish Steps, Via Condotti is the place to go to if you have the cash and are after designer shopping, in particular Italian brands - the street it rather narrow and it's always...

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Venetian Masks (carnival etc) Venice

65 Reviews Funny thing. While in all Europe, in December, commerce is directed to Christmas, Venice is already selling… Carnival. Yes, if we search for it we may find some gadgets included in Christmas...

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Leather Florence

34 Reviews Although the store looks nice and has decent quality leather, there was a problem with a jacket I had altered and shipped to me. I had to pay customs a lot, and return shipping. My debit card...

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Clothes - not high fashion Milan

22 Reviews A great location for everyday shopping is the Corso Buenos Aires. A wide, busy street, it's everything you need from a high street - clothes, shoes, accessories, department stores, cafes, DVD and...

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Clothes & shoes Verona

11 Reviews Via Mazzini is the sort of place I will be shopping in one day. Hopefully. Want some Gucci, Cartier or Fendi designer gear? Well, step over that guy from the Ivory Coast selling the knock off versions...

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food and wine Genoa

8 Reviews Hmm, this is what I really love, fine fresh and moderately expensive fishes & crabs. It is, however, too much if asking 26€ for the wild orata (orata nostrana), should cost around 20 euros, not more...

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Shopping/Festivals/Markets Como

8 Reviews Several weeks before Christmas, lots of street vendors will mount their counters selling their goods on the streets and squares of the town. You can find absolutely everything there, from jewelry,...

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boutiques Portofino

1 Review You may have a hard time finding a pharmacy in Portofino, but if you need the latest in high end fashion, you will not have to search for long. As a major magnet to wealthy tourists, the town is...

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Souvenirs (General) Rome

36 Reviews As expected for a tourist city like Rome there are countless of souvenir stores all over the city center with the typical magnets, postcards etc We liked some small magnets with pinocchio At Piazza...

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Murano Glassware Venice

47 Reviews Venini stocks some of the finest designer Murano glass, including special collections produced in collaboration with the island's top designers. Not an average souvenir stall by any means - the...

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San Lorenzo Market Florence

26 Reviews I love the central market, but I never buy leather goods there. The quality if not the best. But you can pick up some beautiful silk scarves that are inspired by Hermes, Chanel, Ferragamo, and other...

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Fashion and leather Milan

42 Reviews Milan is a magnet for fashion-buyers and designer labels. The Via Montenapoleone and immediate surrounds is the home of most of the great labels of the world, where you can virtually walk out of Dolce...

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Fleamarket Verona

6 Reviews This is definetely the object I would like to buy, and old gramophone which still works. The price was around one thousand euros, but negotiale. The fleamarket offers lots of various stuff, I am sure...

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fornitures Genoa

1 Review In Via Garibaldi, the most impostant street in Genoa, (Rubens found its elegance mesmerising, and was inspired to record its architectural history in the " Palazzi di Genova") at the first floor of...

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Food or beverage Rome

41 Reviews We didn't see any "farmers markets" in Rome but this was pretty close to that. Located at the Circus Maximus, we happened upon it trying get back towards the Colosseo metro station after walking...

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Markets and supermarkets Venice

26 Reviews I was pleased to find a supermarket fairly near to my hotel, so that I could stock up on a few snacks to eat in my room. My breakfast was quite basic , so i purchased some yogurts (1.20 euros for 4...

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Gucci Outlet Florence

11 Reviews One of my favourite places where to shop good quality and nice products at good prices. Once a year I book a long week-end stay in Florence or nearby The Mall to visit The Mall, to enjoy the exquisite...

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Food & drink Verona

5 Reviews I was planning to buy myself some souvenir, bottle of wine or something like that. As I was passing by this shop a smell of prosciutto ham struck my nostrils. I just had to go in. Smoked cheese all...

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Men's Clothing Rome

14 Reviews I passed by this shop coming from the Pantheon and realised that it is very unusual to see a shop that sells only tailormade ties. It was a tiny, quite modest shop, with an air of style that befits a...

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Food, wine and sweets Venice

17 Reviews The Jewiss comunity is big in Venice, and around the old Ghetto area there are a lot of shops offering Kosher food. This bakery attracted our sense with the color of the windows and the smell of the...

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Ponte Vecchio Florence

15 Reviews A lot of visitors to Florence take pictures of the Ponte Vecchio, but don’t go and see the many shops on the bridge. It is worth a look around. Mostly the businesses are Jewellers and I have to admit...

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Negotiating Prices Rome

8 Reviews While in Rome you'll find many people lined up along the streets selling knock off purses, belts, sunglasses, etc. I would just like to say, that if you do see one that you like, if you walk away from...

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Burano Lace Venice

4 Reviews Lace work can be found around the world, but in Burano it is more than craft, it is a passion. The beautiful work is done with utmost care and with great pride. The problem today is less and less lace...

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Mercato Centrale Florence

19 Reviews A little north of the Medici Chapel is the Central market, which is a mix of a local food market and a tourist market. Outside stretching all the way to Piazza San Lorenzo is a locally made leather...

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Children's Clothing Rome

6 Reviews If you like Ferrari then don´t miss their shop. We bought a sweater and a pair of pants for our son (4 months old). Realy expensive 88 Euro but it was realy good quality. I recommend the store take...

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Get a Hair Cut Or Shoeshine: Go For a Service Purchase

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Italians are often very service oriented. By purchasing services you are in for a very nice slice of Italian life and you will have the best souviner of all a great memory. My best friend got a hair cut on a lark on her first trip to Italy. To say she loved it would be an understatement. She looks forward to it on every trip she takes.I like to have my shoes shined. I have had some of my best conversations with Italians while patronizing a shoe shine stand. About the same as at home

Bardolino wines: In vino veritas

by croisbeauty

Put at least one bottle of Italian wine in your bag on the way back home. Let it remind you on a great holidays you had, seating on the terrace, listening to murmur of the waves and sipping a glass of wine in the twilight. My suggestion is, light red wines from the northern part of the country. "Chiaretto" from Bardolino, area of Lago di Garda, is not bad choice.

San Daniele: Prosciutto crudo

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They say San Daniele is the best prosciutto (smoked ham) that exist, perhaps it is truth but I don't share that opinion. It is the metter of taste, to me the best is prosciutto from nearby Istria region.In any case, Italian proscitto, especially the one from San Daniele nearby Udine, is of superb quality. Do not regret to spend some money on it and bring it to your home because you'll have great Christmas time eating it in that ocassion.

Barolo: The king of red wines

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Those of you who are lovers of superb quality wines should taste "Barolo", the king of Italian red wines. It is originated from Tuscany which is home of Barolo, but there are also overstanding quality Barolo's coming from Piedmont too. I prefer Barolo from Piedmont which is more secco (dry).Barolo is very expensive wine but woth all money you spend on it. If you buy it in the wineyards, it cost from 20 to 40 euros for a bottle, in the wine shops however, Barolo from Montalcino, which is the best, cost from 30 up to 150 euros.

Marina Rinaldi - what a gorgeous desinger!

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I am not very much into clothes shopping. Quite contrary, I seriously hate it and I must be in a very very good mood to do it. But recently I found out that this habit must have developed in context to the lousy attitude of clothes shop staff, which usually can’t be bothered with anything that has to do with customer attention (which is an almost general German thing though...).My love affair with this brand started already back in Germany without knowing that a love affair has started. I saw an advertisement in a magazine and liked the style of the sweater. Then I looked up the name of the brand and realised that – of course – it is an Italian brand. And when I was in Reggio nell’Emilia for a brief stopover on the way down to Gubbio in May 2010, I was delighted to hear that the biggest Marina Rinaldi shop is right there because Reggio is home to this brand and the one of Max Mara (the...

Truffle and produces heaven

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Truffles, already the name sounds like music in our ears, doesn’t it? Italia's region Umbria accounts for 80% of Italy’s truffle “production”; well truffle find is the better term. The other region in Italia with high truffle “density” is Piemonte. I have read that 8 black and 2 white truffle varieties are native to Umbria, mostly in the hills above 300 m. Unlike in other countries, Umbria’s truffle hunters work with dogs and not with pigs. They claim that the pigs would rumple the ground too much which might reduce the chances that new truffles would grow at the old places. There was even a truffle dog university in Roddi, Piemonte, but it had to close in 1960 when the founder’s family didn’t want to continue the founds. Throughout the whole year, you can find truffle dishes on Umbria’s restaurant menus and I also tried some while I was there. It was even the first time that I tried...

The best olive oil comes from Italy

by Trekki

When you travel through the hills anywhere in middle Italia (especially in Umbria and Toscana), you will always be surrounded by olive trees. Even if you look at this part of Italia on Google Earth you will see olive groves all over the region (my screenshot in photo 2). Oilve oil is certainly Italia’s or Umbria’s and Toscana's liquid green gold. You can buy it almost everywhere in Bevagna, Montefalco, Trevi, Spello, Assisi and many more of the villages here or directly at one of the manufacturers. Trevi is most probably the best source. On Slow Travel’s website is a good article of what to consider before buying olive oil and it also explains places to buy it (it is a combination of Toscana and Umbria places).Very important however is to look for the labels:D.O.C. = denominazione di origine controllata (denomination of/with controlled origin), and even higher isD.O.C.G. = denominazione...

Italia's red gold, wine - Sagrantino :-)

by Trekki

Everyone knows the famous names of Italian red wines like Barolo and Barbaresco (Piemonte), Bardolino (Veneto) and Brunello, Montepulciano and Chianti (Toscana). But then there is another very delicious wine which is called Sagrantino. This one is so famous that there is even a special website devoted to this wine:La Strada del Sagrantino. If you look at this website (where it says enter) you can see that Sagrantino grapes are mostly found around Bevagna and Montefalco. The history of these grapes is quite interesting, although it is not yet clear where they were brought from. But they date back to the 16th century and the wine was mostly made and drunk my the monks, thus the name Sagrantino, which is believed to have its origin in “sacrament”. Montefalco’s Sagrantino received the D.O.C.G. in 1992 and is thus the 12th Italian wine with this quality label.It is difficult to name or pick...

Namsce Bazar: handbags

by margaretvn

This tiny little shop/studio is wonderful. The husband and wife team work there everyday and they let you wander round the studio looking at the handbags, wallets etc. They make to most beautiful leather goods. I first saw them in 2001 when I was tempted to buy.... but I had bought so much during our trip I resisted their lovely bags. This time though Koos treated me to a lovely bag for my birthday. a handbag around 100 euros

Shopping hours in Italia (roughly), VAT etc

by Trekki

Italia is a shopping paradise. That’s not only for the most delicious food and produces but also for clothing and shoes, which the country is famous for. But then, designer clothes have their prices. Add the Firenze (or Florence) and Venezia “factor” and prices will increase even more. But there are enough smaller shops in the lesser known cities and regions where prices are moderate.In any cases, after shopping anything, always keep your bill or receipt with you because otherwise it means to be fined heavily and there is no mercy with the tourists. Regarding opening hours: the rule is that there is no rule, especially in the touristic centres and at the beach regions. As a rule of thumb most shops are open Monday to Friday from morning (earliest 8:30, latest 10:00) to noon (12:30 or 13:00) and then again in the afternoon (earliest 15:30, latest 17:00) until approx. 19:00 or 20:00. Many...

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