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  • Department store with fashionable, moderately priced clothing for all ages, combined with a supermarket with a great selection of picnic products.

  • Polar bears, squirrels and kangaroos are but some of the 200 glass animals this wonderful shop boasts. Orchestras of tiny glass musicians fill the shop window.

  • These dry biscuits were traditionally made for seafarers. Pevarini are spicy rings with molasses and aniseed, while Dolce del Doge is spread with a chocolate-hazelnut mixture.

  • Photo albums and address books in rainbow-coloured marbled paper and leather at reasonable prices, by one of the original craftsmen in Venice.

  • A pastry shop specializing in biscuits named after St Anthony and studded with pistachios, pine nuts and marsala. The pièce de résistance is a large bun shaped to resemble the town’s domed basilica and flavoured with amaretto (almond liqueur).

  • Sample Burano’s trademark vanilla-flavoured shortbread, bussolai , freshly baked in traditional rounds or “S” shapes.

  • Pastificio Le Spighe

    A normal grocery store at first sight, this hive of industry produces a marvellous range of homemade pasta and stocks gourmet olive oils and olive paste.

  • String together your own necklace in this great shop. Dazzling kaleidoscopic baubles range from traditional gay murrhine, to blown globes sprayed with gold and silver, Chinese ceramics and African bone beads.

  • Branches of this women’s fashion store can be found all over Venice. The latest in trendy designs at value prices.

  • Ceramic enthusiasts must not miss this extraordinary shop of beautiful pottery.

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