When it comes to shopping in Florence, visitors are offered with various choices for the things they want. Visitors sometime forget the art and history of the city and prefer to go for shopping at many stalls, markets and shops located in the city. Shopping at Florence could be the best shopping in Italy. You can still find some of the traditional Florentine shops in the center of the city.Immediately after the Ponte Vecchio, one of the mainly featured shopping area of Florence, on the other side of Arno starts. There are varieties of handicraft shops that are specifically characterized for their variety of items. The handcrafts shops include handcrafted lamps, vases, jewelry and also wooden creations. They even include the classic straw hats and the wooden hat blocks with many of the original creations.
On every second Sunday of the month, an ethnic and national handcraft market takes place in the square that is overlooked by the church Santo Spirito. You can also get very good clothes of Italy in this markets as well as in other shopping centers of Florence.
Near the San Lorenzo church are the city’s main markets, at a short distance walk to the north of Duomo. Fake as well as foreign-made leather goods are filled in these markets. Regular tourist goods like the belts, bags, jackets, ties and clothes are available in loads. Leather crafts have are developing in Florence since hundred years and are now the city’s biggest fashion claim.
The Sant‘Ambrogio Market is one of the typical market of Florence that is covered with iron and cast-iron roof. It includes various shops for meat, grocery, vegetables, fruits, clothing as well as objects for house hold use. The Piazza dei Ciompi garden includes the independent markets which shouldn’t be missed due to their colored stalls.
Florence is an all-time favorite city for purchasing exceptional gifts. The Zecchi or Il Papiro can be visited for buying the best and beautiful marble stationary, in the neighborhood of San Giovanni. The most famous place from where the leather items can be bought is the Santa Croce church. The Santa Maria church has an apothecary that creates aromatic oil blends and perfumes. Florence is most famous for classic gold items due to its association with Ponte Vecchio and has variety of necklaces, rings, earrings, watches and much more. You will find high gold sellers selling high quality gold on both the sides of the most famous bridge of Florence, as you traverse it.
