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Top 10 Souvenirs and Gifts

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1. Centre of Hellenic Tradition

A cavernous warehouse of handicrafts from every corner of the country. If you only have time for one souvenir stop, make this it.
2. Pantelis Mountis

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

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

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.
5. Ilari Galaktozaharoplasteio

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.
6. Emblem

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.
7. O Brettos

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).
8. Mesogeia

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.
9. Lalaounis Museum Jewellery Shop

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

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