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A cavernous warehouse of handicrafts from every corner of the country. If you only have time for one souvenir stop, make this it.
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Specializing in paintings of ships, this shop sells a variety of handmade crafts including painted trays, wooden taverna signs, worry beads and silver and gold jewellery.
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The name – which translates as Ilari dairy and pastry shop – is a mouthful, and so are the delicious traditional Greek sweets sold here. The specialities are old-fashioned puddings.
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This tasteful little shop sells a select choice of gifts, including highly individual, signed and numbered artworks by some of the country’s latest talents.
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Some of the world’s most glamorous gold creations are still to be found at Ilias Lalounis’ celebrated jewellery house.
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This little gem of a grocery shop stocks cheeses from all over the country, olive oil, olives, wine, ouzo, herbs and spices, teas, and some organic goods.
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Pop in for a bottle of this distillery’s fiery home-made ouzo, and stay to sip a shot of surprisingly sweet mestiha and admire the huge barrels under the eaves (see O Brettos).
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In Pantelis Mountis’s hole-in-the-wall, you can purchase beautiful hand-painted icons and metal tamata to ward off specific ailments.
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Handmade worry beads, lucky charms, key rings, beaded bracelets and earrings are sold at this small shop.
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This shop has plenty of Greece’s famous hairy flokatia rugs, made from woolly mountain sheep.
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