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rum from Naples is also the frutti vendolo. You can buy at about 1:30pm. Bargaining
delicious. To make the most of cakes at the pasticceria, milk at is not usual when buying
Italian food, try to buy what is in the latteria, and pasta, ham, and food, but it is worth asking
season. Mushrooms and grapes cheese at the well-stocked for a discount (sconto) for
are best in the fall, whereas alimentari and delicatessens. clothes and other items.
spring is the season for asparagus, To buy wine, head for the Larger markets have stands
strawberries, and artichokes. In enoteca, vineria, or vinaio, where piled high with secondhand
winter, cauliflower and broccoli you can sometimes taste the clothes, and many markets sell
are at their best, as are lemons products first. Italy is a major fake Ray-Ban sunglasses, Lacoste
from Amalfi and Sicilian blood wine producer and stores stock T-shirts, and Levi’s jeans. Popular
oranges. Summer is the time a wide range of labels, from the gifts from Italy include the
for plums, pears, and cherries, prized Barolo and Barbaresco ceramics and wooden kitchen
as well as zucchini, eggplant, vintages to the inexpensive but items sold in most markets.
tomatoes, and melon. palatable local vino da tavola. Specialty markets can be
found in many cities. Milan’s
antique market, the Mercatone
Food Stores Markets dell’Antiquariato, is held on
Specialty stores are the most All Italian towns have at least the last Sunday of the month,
interesting way to shop for food one market a week. Large and the Via Sannio and Porta
in Italy. A fornaio has the best towns have small, daily markets Portese markets of Rome are
bread and a macellaio has the in addition to a weekly flea a mecca for secondhand
finest meat (go to a norcineria for market, usually held on a clothes. The fish market by
pork products). Vegetables are Sunday. Traders set up early the Rialto Bridge in Venice is
freshest from market stands or and usually start to clear away an interesting place to visit.
DIRECTORY
Department Valentino Missiaglia Ottica Nuova di
Stores Via Montenapoleone 20, Procuratie Vecchie, Piazza Malizia Michela
Milan. Tel 02-276 006 182. San Marco 125, Venice. Via P. Rossi 38, Milan.
La Rinascente
Via dei Tosinghi 52r, Tel 041-522 44 64. Tel 02-648 03 10.
Galleria Alberto Sordi,
Piazza Colonna, Rome. Florence. Nardi La Valigeria
Tel 055-29 31 42. Procuratie Nuove, Piazza
Tel 06-678 42 09. Via Cesare Baronio 18,
San Marco 69, Venice.
Piazza Fiume, Rome. Jewelry Tel 041-522 57 33. Rome. Tel 06-788 67 54.
Tel 06-884 12 31.
Buccellati Accessories Regional Crafts
Piazza della Repubblica 1,
Mercerie dell’Orologio
Florence. Borsalino Barovier e Toso
Tel 055-21 91 13. 214, Venice. Piazza del Popolo 20, Fondamenta Vetrai 28,
Tel 041-522 65 49.
Piazza Duomo, Milan. Rome. Tel 06-32 65 08 38. Murano. Tel 041-73 90 49.
Lungarno Acciaiuoli 3/5,
Tel 02-885 21. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
Florence. II 92, Milan. Il Cantuccio della
Designer Fashion Tel 055-21 55 02. Tel 02-890 15 436. Ceramica
Via Montenapoleone 23, Via Benedetto Croce 38,
Armani Ferragamo
Milan. Tel 02-76 00 21 54. Naples. Tel 081-552 58 57.
Via Condotti 79, Rome. Via Condotti 65, Rome.
Tel 06-699 14 61. Bulgari Tel 06-678 11 30. Spazio Artigiano
Via de Tornabuoni 48r, Via Condotti 10, Rome. Via de’ Tornabuoni 16r, Vicolo dei Serpenti 13,
Florence.
Florence. Tel 06-69 62 61. Tel 055-29 21 23. Rome. Tel 06-47 82 48 60.
Tel 055-21 90 41. Via Monte Napoleone, Tragicomica
Via Montenapoleone 3,
Via Monte Napoleone 2, Milan. Tel 02-77 70 01. Milan. Tel 02-76 00 00 54. Calle dei Nomboli,
Milan. Tel 02-76 00 32 34. Cusi San Polo 2800, Venice.
Mandarina Duck
Galleria Cavour, 7/ABCDE, Corso Monforte 23, Milan. Via dei due Macelli 59, Tel 041-72 11 02.
Naples. Tel 051-238 19. Tel 02-76 28 12 93. Rome. Tel 06-67 86 414. Venini
Giò Moretti Gioie Marinella Piazzetta dei Leoncini,
Via della Spiga 4, Milan. Via di Grotta Rossa 126A, Riviera di Chiaia 287A, San Marco 314, Venice.
Tel 02-76 00 31 86. Rome. Tel 06-33 26 03 51. Naples. Tel 081-245 11 82. Tel 041-522 40 45.

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