Greece Travel Guía

There is many attraction for addict to the buys, very good crafts, the designers' clothes and shoes of avant-garde as the jewelry shop, and design memories ancient bargain sales and sticky lamps of Acropolis. With high available income and one almost they corrupt the consumer's enthusiasm, the Greeks shop consists of those of mark with a passion. The fullest street in which more buys do to themselves of es Athens of the Street Ermou, in the Square of Sintagma, where the buyers can take the most recent memories of the station, garments and accessories. The market to do buys is in the district in Athens is Kolonaki near to an elegant Center where there are the small fashionable shops of designers of fame (like the Italian Versace and the Greek talent the most recent Eleftheriades), they are close to the snack bars and fashionable restaurants. The return immediately Ermou in the shop of makeup of FRIENDS and you will be on Aghiou Markou and other small streets that are from house to incredibly cheap shoes, purses, jewelry shop, gifts and others.

When you want to buy a few gifts for friends and family at home or a memory for you, Plaka and Monastiraki are the recommended places. You will find many shops that sell the equal things and you can compare prices, but here it will think that between they do not differ very much. There are many vases, statues, plates. etc. at any place where you first notice them, the vendedore are forced to be in a strange way convincing. As most of Greek folk art, the komboloi history is confused. Probably komboloi is extracted by it of the knotted threads of prayer (komboskini) used by Orthodox Greek monks. As the word komboloi means ”the group of knots“, this can be the real source. There is a custom extended of golden and silver craft in Athens and jewelry shop done here can be of one in particular high quality. The jewelers estánconcentrados in the elegance Kolonaki, with the international expensive exits, like Bulgari, infuriating Voukourestiou, while Greek designers with a lot of future, like Elean Votsi, have shops in the surrounding intersecting streets. Other articles about good value include spirits, ceramics and goods of leather. Greek typical gifts include blankets woven to hand, known as flokati, coffee pots of copper, the virgin olive oil and the honey, quite which can be found in the shops of objects of gift in Plaka. In Athens, there is a big market in the reproductions of pieces of museum and religious icons. The best places for visitors to buy these are in the shops in the museums they themselves. The shops generally open on Monday and Wednesday 09:00 to 14:30, on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 09:00 to 13:30 and 17:30 to 20:30 and on Saturday 09:00 to 15:00. Child, the family career shops can still remain open in 22:00, for the food sale, drinks and newspapers. The business can be obtained in the sales in August and January. The negotiation is the standard practice in the tourist areas of Athens and it is fundamental to avoid to pay exhorbitant prices.