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SOUVENIRS FROM NAPLES

Strolling in the streets of Naples, you will be certainly attracted by the charms of the wares on show in the shop-windows or displayed on the stalls , generally at a rather convenient price.

We would recommend you never  accept straight off the price the shopsellers will tell you, but to haggle about the price . Generally, the shopsellers will offer you  their goods at a higher price as they expect tourists to ask for some discount. So, after a little bit of negotiation, they will be glad to allow you a discount and both of you will be satisfied. It’s an aspect of the local folklore  and it makes more interesting and amusing your shopping .   

In Naples you can find shoes and leather hand-made goods at a very convenient price. If you wish to buy a present for your husband , you would make him happy with a tie from the internationally renowned boutique “Marinella”. If you are looking for nice and original  souvenirs from Naples, you will certainly find something that will fit your request at the “Napolimania” shops (you can find one of them in Via Toledo, inside the Airport terminal and the railway station). If you are fond of the Capodimonte figurines made of fine porcelain, you will find a wide choice of these artworks in the manifactures near the Capodimonte Museum. Instead, if you have been fascinated by the nativity scenes you have admired in the churches and museums of Naples, the best place where you can buy them is in Via San Gregorio Armeno, in the very heart of Naples, where all types of shepherd figurines are displayed, ranging from very cheap ones to some very expensive exemplars, worthy to  be in exhibition in a museum. For your children some of the typical Neapolitan pastries  will certainly be the most welcome gift : you can choose among sfogliatella, babà (flavoured with rum or limoncello), struffoli, and the traditional Easter cake, the pastiera (a dessert made from wheat and ricotta cheese, flavoured with orange blossom essence).

by Svetlana