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Best Shopping Destinations

120 city guides · 3-day shopping itineraries

3-day city guides covering local markets, boutiques, design districts and the best souvenirs.

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Middle East
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi

From the dawn haggle at Mina Fish Market's carpet hall to Saadiyat's museum design shops and Al Ain …

Africa
🇳🇬 Nigeria

Abuja

From Wuse Market's produce aisles to Ceddi Plaza boutiques and the Abuja Arts & Crafts Village, wher…

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Acapulco

Craft markets behind the Zócalo, Diamante design boutiques and coastal artisan stalls, mapped hour b…

Africa
🇬🇭 Ghana

Accra

From Makola's wax-print aisles to Osu's designer studios and the craft compounds of East Legon.…

Europe
🇹🇷 Turkey

Adana

Copper hammered by hand, hot-pepper paste by the kilo, silk-cotton scarves and modern mall floors — …

Africa
🇪🇹 Ethiopia

Addis Ababa

Pit-loom textile markets, fair-trade silk workshops, Bole design studios and spice stalls that vacuu…

Oceania
🇦🇺 Australia

Adelaide

From the 1869 Central Market halls to Ebenezer Place boutiques, opal cutters on Rundle Place and Sun…

Africa
🇲🇦 Morocco

Agadir

From the 3,000 stalls of Souk El Had to women's argan cooperatives, Talborjt's Berber craft workshop…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Agra

Pietra dura workshops, Sadar Bazaar zardozi, Hing ki Mandi shoe factories and the sweet shops that s…

Middle East
🇸🇾 Syria

Aleppo

Laurel soap sold by the kilo, hand-hammered copper, raw silk by the metre, and the boutique streets …

Africa
🇪🇬 Egypt

Alexandria

From the gold alleys of Mansheya to San Stefano's sea-view mall, with antique hunting on Rue Fouad i…

Africa
🇩🇿 Algeria

Algiers

Covered spice halls, arcaded colonial streets, Kabyle silversmiths and the hilltop concept stores of…

Middle East
🇯🇴 Jordan

Amman

From the spice sacks of Al-Balad's covered souks to concept stores in Jabal Amman and fair-trade cra…

Europe
🇳🇱 Netherlands

Amsterdam

From De Pijp's daily street market to the Nine Streets' concept shops, antique cellars on the Elands…

Europe
🇦🇩 Andorra

Andorra La Vella

VAT at 4.5%, 1,500 shops in a 22,000-person capital, and mountain artisans hidden behind the perfume…

Europe
🇹🇷 Turkey

Ankara

From the hammering copper lanes below the Citadel to the mohair ateliers of Hamamönü and the designe…

Europe
🇹🇷 Turkey

Antalya

From the Friday street market and Kaleiçi copper workshops to Lara's malls and Turkey's largest outl…

Africa
🇲🇬 Madagascar

Antananarivo

From the sprawling artisan stalls of La Digue to Analakely's tin-roof market halls and the wood-carv…

North America
🇬🇹 Guatemala

Antigua

From haggling for huipiles in the municipal market to fixed-price design studios on 5a Avenida Norte…

Europe
🇧🇪 Belgium

Antwerp

From Sunday's Vogelenmarkt stalls to Dries Van Noten's Modepaleis, cellar-ripened cheese and certifi…

Oceania
🇼🇸 Samoa

Apia

From the 04:00 produce stacks at Fugalei to hand-blocked elei dresses, village-made coconut skincare…

Asia
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan

Ashgabat

Hand-knotted Turkmen carpets, silver-and-carnelian jewellery, telpek fur hats and gold-domed shoppin…

Africa
🇪🇷 Eritrea

Asmara

Medeber's scrap-metal forges, Harnet Avenue's 1930s boutiques and the woven baskets, teff, coffee an…

Asia
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

Astana

From the sprawling Artyom container bazaar to Left Bank designer malls, felt-and-silver ateliers and…

Latin America
🇵🇾 Paraguay

Asuncion

From the sprawling Mercado 4 to Villa Morra's air-conditioned malls and Areguá's ceramics road — whe…

Europe
🇬🇷 Greece

Athens

From the 1886 iron market halls and Evripidou's spice street to Voukourestiou flagships, museum atel…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Atlanta

From a 1918 municipal market on Auburn Avenue to Mashburn's Westside showrooms and 3,500 antique boo…

Oceania
🇳🇿 New Zealand

Auckland

From Saturday morning produce stalls in Otara to Ponsonby's concept stores and K' Road vintage racks…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Austin

Saturday grower markets, North Loop thrift, warehouse artist studios and the record bins that built …

Europe
🇫🇷 France

Avignon

Les Halles at dawn, canal-side ateliers on Rue des Teinturiers, Joseph Vernet boutiques and weekend …

Middle East
🇮🇶 Iraq

Baghdad

From the Abbasid-era wholesale alleys of Shorja to the coppersmiths of Safafeer, the couture atelier…

Africa
🇪🇹 Ethiopia

Bahir Dar

Backstrap looms, factory-outlet cotton, Zege forest coffee and the covered basket rows of the Amhara…

Europe
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan

Baku

From the haggling aisles of Teze Bazar to Nizami Street boutiques and the copper workshops of the wa…

Africa
🇲🇱 Mali

Bamako

Mud-cloth workshops, Tuareg silversmiths and the tailor stalls of Africa's loudest textile capital, …

Asia
🇧🇳 Brunei

Bandar Seri Begawan

Sunday morning jungle-produce tamus, hand-woven silk songket at BND$1,000 a length, brassware from K…

Asia
🇮🇩 Indonesia

Bandung

Textile markets, Cibaduyut shoemakers, export-surplus outlets and the distro labels that built Indon…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Bangalore

From the flower-heaped aisles of KR Market to Indiranagar's designer studios and Cauvery's sandalwoo…

Asia
🇹🇭 Thailand

Bangkok

From the 15,000 stalls of Chatuchak to Charoenkrung's design studios and the amulet stalls of Tha Pr…

Europe
🇪🇸 Spain

Barcelona

Century-old market halls, Gràcia's independent boutiques, and the espadrille and ceramic workshops t…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Barranquilla

From sequins sold by the metre in Barranquillita to woven palm from Usiacurí and the glass malls of …

Europe
🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Bath

Victorian market halls, a 1825 shopping arcade, the antiques quarter on Bartlett Street and the inde…

Europe
🇬🇪 Georgia

Batumi

From the fish stalls of Boni Bazaar to hand-cut Adjaran wool, Georgian enamel jewellery and duty-fre…

Middle East
🇱🇧 Lebanon

Bcharre

Hand-carved cedar, apple-harvest preserves and Maronite craft picked up across a village strip, a UN…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Beijing

Qing porcelain at dawn, silk cut by the metre, gallery-district ceramics and China's top-grossing de…

Middle East
🇱🇧 Lebanon

Beirut

From the sacks of sumac in Souk el Tayeb to Lebanese couture in Saifi Village and the copper alleys …

Europe
🇬🇧 Northern Ireland

Belfast

St George's Market traders, Cathedral Quarter independents and Irish linen, ceramics and craft whisk…

Europe
🇷🇸 Serbia

Belgrade

Green-market haggling at Zeleni Venac, Serbian designer studios in Dorćol and hand-carved souvenirs …

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Belo Horizonte

Sunday's 3,000-stall street fair, the soapstone-and-copper artisan trade of Minas Gerais, Savassi's …

Africa
🇱🇾 Libya

Benghazi

From the covered Ottoman souq and the Gold Street jewellers to Cyrenaican dates, Bedouin silver and …

Europe
🇳🇴 Norway

Bergen

From the wool of Oleana and Dale to Torgallmenningen's flagships and the antique bric-a-brac lanes o…

Europe
🇩🇪 Germany

Berlin

The best vintage clothing market in Germany, vinyl records, GDR memorabilia and Bauhaus design…

Europe
🇨🇭 Switzerland

Bern

Six kilometres of covered Lauben arcades, cellar-level boutiques behind trapdoors, and Emmental farm…

Europe
🇪🇸 Spain

Bilbao

From the Ribera riverside market and Casco Viejo's century-old txapela makers to Abando's fashion gr…

Europe
🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Birmingham

Bull Ring market halls, jewellery sold straight off the workbench, Digbeth vintage rails and the sar…

Europe
🇸🇮 Slovenia

Bled

Lakeside market stalls, Radovljica's chocolate and gingerbread workshops, and hand-forged iron from …

Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa

Bloemfontein

Farm-stall preserves, hand-spun Karakul wool, Basotho blankets and Loch Logan's boutique strip, mapp…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Bogota

From the pre-dawn flower stalls of Paloquemao to Zona T ateliers and the Usaquén flea market.…

Europe
🇮🇹 Italy

Bologna

From the 13th-century Quadrilatero food stalls to Galleria Cavour's luxury flagships and the leather…

Europe
🇫🇷 France

Bordeaux

From the Marché des Capucins at dawn to the antique dealers of Chartrons and the 1.2 km Rue Sainte-C…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Boston

From SoWa's vintage tents and Newbury Street brownstone boutiques to Beacon Hill antiques, Cambridge…

Europe
🇫🇷 France

Bourges

Market mornings on place des Marronniers, artisan ateliers on rue Bourbonnoux, and the wood-fired po…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Brasilia

From the 1,200-stall Feira do Guará to Lago Norte luxury and the golden-grass weavers under the TV T…

Europe
🇸🇰 Slovakia

Bratislava

From the 300-stall Miletičova market to Slovak-only concept stores, folk-craft workshops and a mid-c…

Africa
🇨🇬 Congo

Brazzaville

From the fabric halls of Marché Total to Bacongo's suit boutiques and Poto-Poto's painting studios.…

Europe
🇩🇪 Germany

Bremen

From the 1,000-year-old Marktplatz market stalls to the porcelain carillon of Böttcherstraße and the…

Europe
🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Bristol

From the 1743 Glass Arcade and Wapping Wharf's shipping containers to Clifton's Victorian arcade and…

Europe
🇨🇿 Czech Republic

Brno

Daily produce markets, Bauhaus-era design shops, Moravian wine and glass — a second city where indep…

Europe
🇧🇪 Belgium

Brussels

Marolles bric-a-brac at dawn, Antwerp-Six boutiques on Dansaert, 1847 glass arcades and the beer and…

Europe
🇷🇴 Romania

Bucharest

From Obor's 300-year-old market halls to Calea Victoriei concept stores and the antique bazaars of L…

Europe
🇭🇺 Hungary

Budapest

Working market halls, Hungarian designer flagships, a sprawling flea market and hand-painted porcela…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Buenos Aires

From Sunday antiques on Defensa to Palermo Soho's independent designers, Once wholesale rails and th…

Asia
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

Bukhara

Suzani embroidery, hand-forged knives, ikat silk and gold-thread work bought straight from the works…

Europe
🇹🇷 Turkey

Bursa

Cocoon-to-scarf silk hans, hand-loomed Bursa towels, chestnut candy and Uludağ knitwear across Ottom…

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Busan

From 1950s refugee arcades and a secondhand book lane to Korea's largest department store and the de…

Africa
🇪🇬 Egypt

Cairo

Khan el-Khalili's medieval alleys, the tentmakers' hand-stitched panels, Zamalek boutiques and the g…

North America
🇨🇦 Canada

Calgary

From western Canada's last cowboy-boot factory to Kensington's independents, with Alberta's 5% tax a…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cali

From the wholesale chaos of Calle 13 to San Antonio's ceramic studios and the custom dance-shoe work…

Europe
🇬🇧 England

Cambridge

Daily market stalls, All Saints craft makers, Mill Road independents and the oldest bookshop site in…

Oceania
🇦🇺 Australia

Canberra

Sunday farmers' markets, Braddon's warehouse boutiques and Kingston's design strip — where a planned…

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Cancun

From downtown market halls and Taxco silver stalls to Hotel Zone designer arcades and the marina sho…

Europe
🇬🇧 England

Canterbury

Farm-gate produce at The Goods Shed, independent boutiques along Palace Street and Burgate, and hand…

Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa

Cape Town

Saturday markets in converted mills, Cape wine-country ceramics, township beadwork co-ops and the de…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Caracas

From the 05:00 chaos of Quinta Crespo to El Hatillo's craft warehouses and Las Mercedes design studi…

Europe
🇫🇷 France

Carcassonne

From the 80-stall Place Carnot market to Rue Trivalle antique dealers and the artisan workshops hidd…

Europe
🇬🇧 Wales

Cardiff

Seven surviving Victorian and Edwardian arcades, a 1891 covered market, independent Welsh design stu…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cartagena

From the raw fish-and-fruit chaos of Bazurto to the emerald counters of Las Bóvedas and the resort-w…

Africa
🇲🇦 Morocco

Casablanca

From the babouche lanes of the Old Medina to Racine's design galleries and the Atlantic-front Morocc…

Europe
🇮🇹 Italy

Catania

Fish market theatre at dawn, Via Etnea boutiques by day, and lava-stone jewellery workshops hidden i…

Asia
🇵🇭 Philippines

Cebu City

Dried-fish stalls, handloom galleries, Mactan guitar workshops and the mega-malls that bookend them.…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Charlotte

Cotton-mill maker halls, South End boutiques, SouthPark luxury flagships and 300 antique booths on S…

Africa
🇲🇦 Morocco

Chefchaouen

Handloom blankets on Rue Targui, filigree silver at Souk el-Hots, and goat-cheese sellers in the Pla…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Chengdu

Bamboo-woven porcelain, Shu brocade looms, Taikoo Li flagships and the wholesale chaos of Hehuachi —…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Chennai

From the wholesale lanes of George Town to Khader Nawaz Khan Road's designer floors and the artist-r…

Asia
🇹🇭 Thailand

Chiang Mai

From Wualai's silversmiths and hill-tribe embroidery to Nimman concept stores and the celadon kilns …

Asia
🇯🇵 Japan

Chiba

Boso Peninsula craft markets, Narita's pilgrimage-street sweetshops and Japan's biggest bayside outl…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Chicago

From Wicker Park's vintage alley and Andersonville's independents to the Merchandise Mart design sho…

Asia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh

Chittagong

From the two-metre-wide gold lane of Hazari Goli to export-surplus garments and teak stripped off sc…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Chongqing

Wholesale towers at the river confluence, artisan lanes carved into the cliffs, and a banknote plant…

Oceania
🇳🇿 New Zealand

Christchurch

Saturday farmers' markets, laneway boutiques, Woolston's brick design quarter and Lyttelton's harbou…

Europe
🇷🇴 Romania

Cluj-Napoca

Farmers' market halls, Mirror Street ateliers, museum craft shops and the Someșeni flea tarps.…

Europe
🇵🇹 Portugal

Coimbra

Hand-painted Coimbra faience, century-old haberdasheries under the arcades, and the student tailors …

Europe
🇩🇪 Germany

Cologne

From the Wednesday farmers' market in Nippes to Belgian Quarter concept stores and the 1709 perfume …

Asia
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

Colombo

Saturday craft markets, Barefoot's striped cotton, the 22-karat goldsmiths of Sea Street and Paradis…

Europe
🇩🇰 Denmark

Copenhagen

From Torvehallerne's food halls to Jægersborggade's ceramicists and the Royal Copenhagen porcelain f…

Europe
🇪🇸 Spain

Cordoba

Filigree workshops in the Zoco, hand-tooled guadamecí leather, Calleja de las Flores ceramic studios…

Europe
🇬🇷 Greece

Corfu

Marble-paved alleys of the UNESCO Old Town, Ionian olive-wood workshops, kumquat distilleries and th…

Europe
🇬🇷 Greece

Corinth

Laiki street markets, Ermou Street boutiques, Agiorgitiko wine estates and pottery workshops between…

Europe
🇮🇪 Ireland

Cork

From Victorian arcades and farmhouse cheese counters to Cork's independent design lanes, silversmith…

Europe
🇷🇴 Romania

Craiova

Covered market halls, Calea Unirii boutiques and Horezu ceramics in southwestern Romania's biggest c…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Curitiba

From the thousand-stall Largo da Ordem craft fair to Pátio Batel's luxury floor, with antique dealer…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Cusco

From the 1925 iron halls of San Pedro to Carmen Alto ateliers, weavers' co-ops on Tullumayo and the …

Asia
🇻🇳 Vietnam

Da Nang

From the overnight tailors above Cho Han to An Thuong's design studios, the marble carvers of Non Nu…

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Daegu

Wholesale fabric halls, 1930s hardware alleys, gallery-street ateliers and Korea's densest secondhan…

Asia
🇰🇷 South Korea

Daejeon

From the century-old fabric stalls of Jungang Market to Seongsimdang's bread empire and the neon bou…

Africa
🇸🇳 Senegal

Dakar

From the chaotic thread-and-bead labyrinth of Marché HLM to Almadies concept stores selling Dakar Fa…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Dalian

Dried sea cucumber by the jin, Russian nesting dolls on Tianjin Street, and northeast China's bigges…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Dallas

From Dragon Street showrooms and Highland Park Village to dealer-booth antique malls, Texas bootmake…

Middle East
🇸🇾 Syria

Damascus

Spice sacks in Bzouriyya, hammered trays in the coppersmiths' lane, silk by the metre, then Shaalan …

Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania

Dar Es Salaam

Makonde blackwood carvers, Tingatinga canvases, six-yard kitenge bolts and peninsula boutiques — bar…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Delhi

From the 1650 spice lanes of Khari Baoli to Shahpur Jat's couture ateliers and the fixed-price craft…