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This elegant shopping centre is Vienna’s most expensive retail area, with designer clothes as well as jewellery and gourmet food. The shops are interspersed with cafés and restaurants.

Just outside the Land-strasser Hauptstrasse metro station is the small Rochus market. Some 30 permanent stalls offer mainly fruit, vegetables, flowers and fresh meat, but on Saturdays the lively Rochusmarkt increases to almost double the size, when farmers from further afield also come to offer their delectable homegrown crops.

Behind the very pretty shopfront is another beautiful stationery shop selling handmade paper and writing equipment.

A tiny bookshop with a lot of character and the best place to go for contemporary English literature. Good travel and poetry section.

Shoes in unusual colours, shoes with extraordinary heels, shoes with bizarre buckles – a veritable footwear paradise. All the styles are created by international and Austrian designers.

This major department store is located in the heart of the city. You’ll find mainly designer names such as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein on its five floors, but there are also perfumes, cosmetic products and home decor items on sale. The top floor has great views over the rooftops and the Sky Bar offers excellent cocktails.

The best address for top of the range fountain pens, as well as diaries and organizers. A range of handmade papers as well as beautifully printed wrapping papers are also on sale.

Top wines from the wine-growing region of Lower Austria are on sale here at reasonable prices.

Also situated among the many galleries and antiques shops in Dorotheergasse, beautiful jewellery from the beginning of the 20th century up to the 1960s is on offer here. A gem-lover’s paradise.

Everything in this little shop revolves around chocolate, with more then 120 varieties from all over the world, as well as books on the subject.