Shopping in Venice: the subtleties you would like to know
Venice is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is protected by UNESCO as an important cultural object for the whole world, this city is loved by actors and celebrities and Italians consider it to be one of its most beautiful cities. Will it be possible to combine sightseeing in Venice and good shopping? We'll tell you about it below.
Venice is divided into 2 parts: Old Venice (with gondolas and the Grand Canal), on which cars and "new Venice" - the city of Mestre, where there are no museums and sights, but live and ordinary Italians work.
Old Venice and shopping
In Old Venice on every free meter of space is a shop with souvenirs, jewelry, clothing, Murano glass. However, keep in mind that all these shops are designed for tourists and prices are higher here several times than anywhere else.
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Buying clothes and shoes
In Old Venice you can find many boutiques of famous designers of different levels: Chanel, Armani, Furla, D & G, MaxMara, Guess, Benetton. However, here they are all small in size and represent a small assortment.
On the streets of Old Venice, crowds of tourists walk along the streets and attack each other on their feet, however, in clothing and footwear shops it is quite empty - most tourists here do not "shop." Italians do not buy clothes and shoes at these tourist shops at all. One gets the impression that these shops need more for advertising and how in marketing they call it "brand representations". Let the tourist and not buy anything, but at least once again notice and remember the name of the clothing brand.
The most profitable shopping here can be only during sales, when in all boutiques in Italy discounts on things of current collections are 30-70% (January-February, July-August).
Keep from buying clothes and shoes in the markets and in private shops, because the streets of Venice themselves the Venetians are still called the Chinese quarters. What initially seems to you to be inexpensive and sweet will turn out to be a Chinese counterfeit with a low quality, which the Chinese produced here in their own underground workshops.
Buying jewelry and products from Murano glass
Each city has its own souvenirs, which will then remind you of the trip .Having been in Venice, be sure to buy yourself a souvenir of Murano glass - decorations cost from 7-10 EUR and look very unusual .However, to look for such souvenir shops really some original designer jewelry is not worth it - all the rings and pendants made of such glass in different shops are very similar to each other .Also at every step in the shops you can find yourself the famous Venetian masks .These souvenir shops reminded me very much of the line of kiosks and shops in Sochi and Anapa - they stretch from St. Mark's Square to the railway station .
The conclusion: not one of my shoppers will ever offer a client shopping in Old Venice because of the small assortment, high prices and large crowds of people on the streets. So for shopping you better go to another place.
The suburbs of Venice and shopping
If you want to combine shopping and sightseeing in Venice, then shopping should go to the suburbs of Mestre, Vicenza, Verona and other small towns.
In the suburbs of the Veneto region, there are boutiques with current collections of famous designers, which are in every Italian city and are very popular outlets and stock-centers with clothes of past collections of well-known brands with discounts of 30-70%
Veneto Designer Outlet - this outlet offers clothes and shoes from famous designers with discounts of 30-70%. Here you can find brands: Armani, Blumarine, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Valentino and many others. He belongs to the group of outletlets together with the famous Serravalle (located between Milan and Genoa) and looks like a big village, where small shops-outlets from factories are concentrated. I draw your attention that not always the right sizes are available and sometimes in the stores of the Veneto region you can find even a larger assortment at lower prices. Conveniently, everything here is in one place.
Donatello in Mestre is another popular outlet outlet, in which Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Fendi, Gabrielli, Genny, Moschino are represented. It's small in size, but you can find pretty things.
Valecenter in the city of Marcon. On the motorway leading to Mestre there is a shopping center with a large number of medium brands. It is quite new, but has already become very popular among Italians. There are well-known and little-known Italian brands of the middle segment and mass-markets (clothes, shoes, jewelry and costume jewelery, underwear): Conbipel, Conte Of Florence, Dodipetto, Esprit, Guess, Imperial, Levi's and about 100 stores. The
Coin - the popular shopping center Coin offers different Italian mid-range brands and here you can find Coin in both Mestre (La Barca shopping center) and in Old Venice next to the Realto Bridge. I do not like Coin very much because of the small assortment and not such low prices as this store is initially positioned. On the one hand there are good brands, on the other hand very few stylish things. At fashionable Italians Coin causes a smile most often.
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Also it is worth to visit the patches from the shoe factories of Italian little-known brands Janet E Janet, Cromia, Roderta, as well as unbranded Italian shoes of good quality, made in small factories in the vicinity of Venice. The cost of leather shoes is 50-150 EUR.
In Mestre are scattered in different places shops with handmade leather goods - bags, purses, leather jackets from Italian masters can be found at very competitive prices. The quality is quite high, and the models are almost unique, as they are not manufactured in factories.
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