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Not Just Gucci and Prada Factory Shops In cities and towns you will find the goods that Italians take great pride in designing and making, and no where more so than in  Tuscany. Walk the vias and
viccoli of Tuscany and find the best designs
and best quality goods you can buy.
Feast your eyes on world-known designers work and top brands.
Equally impressive, in their own way, local artisans putting the
Tuscan stamp of stamp of style and excellence on nearly everything
they produce. Leather goods that Italy as a whole is known for,
fashion, antiques, perfume, food and wine, photographic equipment,
paintings, hand-made stationery, ceramics all on show. Shopping is
made even more delightful by the "care about you" approach to
customer service that Tuscans find second nature. Some of our
finds below and more in the newsletter. |
 Many little boutiques
 and
galleries
offer stylish well
made clothes for all tastes, antique shops preserve Tuscan history
and artists mind their fledgling galleries awaiting purchasers or
just an admirer of their work.. |
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and StudiosPaintings of Tuscany, photographs of Tuscan sunsets, local leather artisans, many art and craft based products to a high aesthetic standard. Antique maps hand made stationery. Il Pozzo located via Nazionale Cortona Follow the gentle strains of music down the little lane lined with photographs of local scenes, to this immaculately restored gem of a shop, complete, (as the name suggests) with the original well. This is a treasure trove of artisan products ranging from beautiful leather notebooks and bags to hand-made quill pens and extraordinary chess sets. See more.. |
 CeramicsL’Antico Cocciaio, located at via Benedetti 24, with a showroom at 69 via Nazionale, is crammed to the rafters with local Cortonese ceramics – all adorned with a hand-painted olive green and terracotta sunflower motif on a soft yellow base. Every possible ceramic utensil is here from candlesticks to wine jugs, espresso sets to egg cups and everything in between – all at very reasonable prices for such handmade quality. Every time we visit we add to your collection and always find items we have not seen before. There are also magnificent renaissance style wall plates in rich blues and turquoises which are reproductions of medieval designs. The workshop also sells unglazed terracotta pieces such as house numbers, Christmas nativity scenes and baubles as well as wall planters. Any item can be shipped to anywhere in the world – the items are wrapped in wet hay for protection and this seems to work miraculously! |
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Fabrics Busatti weavers of superb linen and cotton is locat  ed
in a vaulted 16th century showroom in Anghiari and is where
Miuccia Prada and Valentino order made to measure table linen. If
you are lucky, they will take you on a tour of the workshop. run
by the Busatti-Sassolini family since 1842. Busatti still uses the
antique weaving and manufacturing techniques it has used through
the years and this distinguishes the firm from its competition.
Gorgeous hand made fabrics made from precious fibres are used to
create home-linens, curtains, rugs, towels, cushions, aprons and
tablecloths in a vast range of colours and workmanships. Busatti
also produces arthenware and glassware to compliment their fabrics
and style. |
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The Newsletter
 Knowing Tuscany makes a difference. Traveller is in Tuscany each year and writes a newsletter. The current issue of the newsletter includes information about staying on olive and grape farms in the Arezzo province, it also looks at the dishes of the region and the local produce. There is also an article on Cortona (under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes) in summer and at Christmas, including Traveller's favourite villas and apartments to stay in the Arezzo region. Quick Register for Newsletter |
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Tuscany Shopping Traveller travels in Tuscany and keeps you informed about the Italian province that is the envy of the world. Here you will find free information on: how to travel to and in Tuscany, which places to visit. Traveller recommends accommodation, gives details of events for your entertainment and fun, as well as publishing critical reports on Tuscan food served in restaurants (osteria, trattoria and ristorante) and tuscan produce and recipes to cook yourself. Find out here also about Tuscan wine and where to drink and buy it (enoteca). Plus details of shops for stylish goods and fashion including where to find Gucci and Prada factory shops. You can book our recommended accommodation here and subscribe to the Newsletter or ask for the personal travel planning service. Tuscany Traveller Shopping Links |
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