Shopping
Markets, boutiques and makers worth seeking out, city by city
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From covered food halls and flea markets to independent boutiques and artisan studios, these are the shops and markets our local guides love around the world. Browse the picks below and filter by city and budget to find where to shop like a local.
De Pijp
The Netherlands’ biggest street market, running the length of De Pijp – stalls of cheese, fish, flowers, clothes and, crucially, fresh stroopwafels and herring. A great local browse and graze.
★ 4.5
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Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir is the birthplace of Turkish delight as the world knows it — a confectioner founded in 1777 and run by the same family for seven generations. Its historic…
★ 4.3
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Haight-Ashbury
Amoeba grew from a single Berkeley shop in 1990 into an independent California institution, and the cavernous Haight Street location is a pilgrimage for record diggers. You’ll find hundreds of thousan
Karlova
A Soviet-era secret factory turned Tartu’s creative quarter – studio shops like Karud ja Pojad, the plant-shop-cafe Plantarium, galleries, street art and regular market days fill the old industrial halls. It is the best souvenir hunting in Tartu: everything is made by someone who probably works upstairs. Shops run Monday to Saturday; the cafes and bars stay open later.
You will find out that “Arab Town” is a market primarily for the locals, where you will not find many tourists, but this is what makes the market so special. You can…
Wallingford
This gloriously weird Wallingford institution has been peddling rubber chickens, absurd toys and oddball gifts for decades, and even houses a free Rubber Chicken Museum. It’s the place for gag gifts,
Just below the Old Bazaar, Art Gallery Bukefal has shown work from more than 200 artists over the years, spanning traditional Ohrid icon painting to wider Balkan and Macedonian art. It holds…
★ 4.9
San Telmo
Why it matters: this fair-trade shop is run by an NGO that has worked with Argentina’s Indigenous communities since 1986, channeling income to more than 500 artisan families from the Wichí, Qom, Mbya Guaraní, Kolla and other peoples. Expect hand-carved palo santo, chaguar-fiber weavings, ceramics and silverwork, with each piece traceable to its maker’s community. It sits steps from Plaza de Mayo on the way into San Telmo; check arteyesperanza.com.ar for current hours before you go.
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