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As you all certainly know, Milan is also a town for shopping. In fact, it is also called “The town of fashion”, and this name is not only due to the various fashion shows that take place in the town during the entire year, but also to the fact that here you can find the best stylist boutiques in Italy.
The heart of the fashion in Milan are Spiga Street , Bergognone street and all the zone around San Babila square. Practically the centre of the town. In these streets you can find the best and dearest stylist boutiques, like Armani, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Krizia, Fiorucci, Missoni and so on.
Of course the prices of those boutiques are beyond the capacity of the majority of people, because they sold unique models of high fashion.
But Milan is a great town, and it is possible to find retailers or franchisers that haven’t so prohibitive prices.
So let’s have a little sightseeing of the best shops, that lie in no more than one hundred meters, from the office where I work!
I work near Loreto square, one of the zones where you can find a great number of shops that
offer good and medium quality products.
Practically you will find a large main street called ‘Buenos Aires’ that go from Porta Venezia to Loreto square. (You can easily find both of them, because they give their names to two underground stops).
Starting from Loreto square and going along Buenos Aires street in the direction of the centre of the town, you can find to your right a Bassetti shop; this chain is well known for the good quality of their bed linen and kitchen linen, but this particularly shop offers products of a medium/low quality: it always offers bargain prices (since 2000!, probably because the proprietor isn’t able to conduct this shop in the right way), but that in any case aren’t of a good value for money.
Just after this shop you’ll find a really small shoe shop, where you can find women shoes of a medium quality at a reasonable prices.
Going straight ahead you’ll find a jewellery, and a clothes shop. I can’t tell you to take this clothes shop into consideration, because it has exaggerate prices, while the items are of a medium/low quality.
Just after this shop you can find a well known shop of the ‘Chicco’ chain, that sold all you that you need for newborns, pregnant women and children, up to 10 age. I can recommend you this shop, because it has items of a really good quality, at reasonable prices.
Now, please, cross the street, because on the other side there are three really interesting shops one after the other: Adidas, Legnano and Boggi.
This Adidas shop sells both sport garments and shoes, and you can find bargain prices during the whole year, from time to time on shoes or on garments. I like this particular shop: because the shop assistants are really kind, they always help the customs in their choices, and the shop itself looks really wonderful and draws the attention because it is really modern, pretty and shiny.
Legnano is another well known brand of sport clothes, shoes and tools (they are famous for bicycles), but this particular shop has articles only for men. They offer, from time to time some pairs of shoes to bargain prices, and they really have a vast choice of types and models.
Boggi is a men clothes shop, a well known brand that offers clothes, underwear, ties and belts: all their models are very classical, and the prices are reasonable.
And now we have four shops that could satisfy any woman. The first one is Frette, a shop that sells a lot of type of bed linens, pyjamas, bath-wraps and towel. Frette offers only items of upper quality, and the prices are really high.
Frette faces a little square called Oberdan, and on the same side of the square you can find another shop specialized in bed and kitchen linens, called Sogaro, that offers a wide choice of good quality products of the best brand available on the Italian market, that aren’t at the same level of Frette products, but that of a good quality, and with reasonable prices.
On the other side of the square there is Carmen a perfumery shop that sells only good quality products, and that seldom offers bargains prices. You can find all the most important fragrances both for men and women, the only problem is that the shop is ever crowded!
Just after the little square you’ll find the fourth women shop: ‘La Perla’, that sells underwear, of course only for women. La Perla has wonderful products, with a wide choice: from the sexiest lingerie, to items that fits well for teenagers. The prices are fairly cheap in comparison with the good quality of the items.
Now, crossing the street, always in front of the little square you can find one of the shops I personally prefer: Giacomelli sport. In this shop you can find quite anything related to sport. Near to the entrance you’ll find plenty of articles for body building; on the right side of the shop you’ll find bath suits and all the articles related to swimming, than articles related to skiing and to biking and to martial arts. In the centre of the shop you can find a lot casual garments, gym clothes and shoes, wind jackets, soccer shoes, clothes and bags (also the original uniforms of the different Italian soccer teams), and all the articles have cheap prices, because Giacomelli has a great number of shops in the whole Northern Italy. ------------- All these shops are gathered, as I just told you at the beginning of this too long opinion, in no more than a hundred metres from Loreto square, and they represent a good example of the variety and of the number of shops that you can find near the centre of Milan, without going directly in the so called “fashion triangle”, where prices are really inaffordable!
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milan....one of the most polluted italian cities....and I live there! argh! I want to go to Valle d'Aosta(Aosta is , in Latin, Augusta Praetoria...) hi px
totempole 17.10.2003 23:01
I haven't been there for ages!!
numberthree 17.10.2003 14:14
Milan does sound lovely. Sadly I have only seen the airport and the outskirts on the way to Folgarida in the Dolomites when I've been skiing.
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