DK Travel : Madrid : Shopping

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Arte Arabe

Shades of the Orient in this shop selling hookah pipes, copper kettles, carved wooden boxes, embroidered slippers, cushions, and much more.
Biocentro

Health food shop with a good selection of natural products, mainly food (including vacuum-packed 100 per cent vegeburgers) and cosmetics.
Bodega Santa Cecilia

This wine cellar is popular not only for its range (more than 4,000 labels), but for the quality and affordability. The owners keep prices down by scouring the countryside for lesser-known vineyards.
Cántaro

A treasure trove for admirers of pottery and an excellent place to shop for gifts. Products from all over Spain at very reasonable prices.
Caramelos Paco

The display windows of this famous sweet emporium are ablaze with colour. Some of the flavours – rice pudding, for example – sound less appealing than others. Sugar-free sweets for diabetics.
Casa del Libro

Four floors of books on every subject under the sun. Some English books. Good travel section, especially for books on Spain.
Casa Hernanz

One of a number of intriguing shops on Calle de Toledo, Casa Hernanz specializes in rope, with items such as espadrilles, baskets, mats and light-shades.
Casa Jiménez

It’s difficult to tear yourself away from this emporium specializing in mantones (Spanish shawls) and mantillas , the silk headresses worn by women in Goya’s paintings (see Casa Jiménez).
Casa Jiménez

A superb shop dealing mainly in mantones de Manila . These embroidered, brightly coloured silk shawls originated in China and found their way to Spain via the Philippines. They gained popularity in 19th-century Seville when the working girls of the tobacco factories wore them. Also sells fans and mantillas , the traditional black lace headdress still worn on formal occasions (see Casa Jiménez).
Casa Lucas

This old-fashioned lechería (dairy) should be seen if only for its decorative tiled frontage. The sign outside with the cows reads “Pure milk for children and the sick”.