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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.

In Pantelis Mountis’s hole-in-the-wall, you can purchase beautiful hand-painted icons and metal tamata to ward off specific ailments.

This shop has plenty of Greece’s famous hairy flokatia rugs, made from woolly mountain sheep.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Some of the world’s most glamorous gold creations are still to be found at Ilias Lalounis’ celebrated jewellery house.

Handmade worry beads, lucky charms, key rings, beaded bracelets and earrings are sold at this small shop.