My shopping experience at the Florence, Italy
Today people are quite cautious about their dress sense and fashion. An individual wearing old fashion garments is looked down by the entire society. Thus, people are very cautious to look up to date round the year. Some ladies have a fascination to shop fashionable accessories from Florence of Italy as this is known as the Paradise for the fashion lovers. The art and history of Italy is famous around the world. The city of Florence have abundance of three different things namely food, history and art. You can easily get variety of vintage treasures, boutiques and artisan workshops.
I visited Florence for 5 days. During my visit, I spent great time in exploring various shopping destinations of the city. The high street stores of the city are flooded by leather markets.
Shopping destinations at Florence, Italy
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Florence is also famous luxurious articles and other household goods. From 14th century this street is known for beautiful palace of noble Florentine families. Today you will be able to see and shop at luxury shops as well as boutiques laid down by the famous designers. Ladies will be really happy to find out the magnificent jewelry shops at Via Tornabuoni. If you have brand fascination, you can easily get your brands such as Ferragama, Gucci, Pucci, Prada etc. You can now shop for yourself and also for entire family once you get back your nation. This is the place to get total enjoyment and pleasure of shopping with fun and satisfaction.
Officina Profumo – Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella
Along with the garments, another important fashion accessory which is admired and availed by many women before moving out for a party or an occasion is perfume. When I went to Victoria, I found the exclusive variety of perfume at armaceutica di Santa Maria Novella. The perfumes available over here are from their original production house. The smells are derived from the local herbs grown in the climate of Italy. The opening hour of the stores is from 9:30 am to 7:30pm.
Museum and Gucci history
If you are the fatigue shopper, this is a wonderful place where you can shop and have places to consume food and enjoy the drink. You can move around the whole day to enjoy the history of museums but some refreshment in the way will be important. The museum as well as Icon store remains open from 10 am to 2pm. It is the 14th century building constructed in Victoria with the collections of luxury fashion brand Gucci. You will be able to get the replica of Michelangelo’s David. I was spell bound and happy to hear about the history of Gucci.
Antique Market
For years people have fascination about variety of antiques. I was also one of them and want to visit some place in Victoria where the Antique collections are major. Piazzi Ciompi is a place in Victoria where you can get the real treasure of Italy. I was spell bound to have a look at the collection of gowns. It fitted me as if it is a tailor made exclusively in my size.
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