A long time ago there is already an opinion that the best shopping in Italy can be performed in such cities as Rome, Florence and of course Milan. Well, the wonderful island of Sardinia is more associated with all fabulous beaches. However, nevertheless, Sardinia provides all tourists along with a beach and excursion rest, excellent opportunities for shopping. Here you can acquire excellent textiles and many different food products. In addition to ordinary boutiques with souvenir bears on the island, markets also work and fairs are arranged.
Golden and silver jewelry with corals and precious stones are very popular on Sardinia. Here for a long time it flourishes the craft for the manufacture of the finest precious threads - "Filigree Sarda". Even in the medieval period in Sardinia, it was customary to decorate the festive costumes by the bugs of a conical form from Filigners. Then the original coulides of various forms began to produce. To date, in any jewelry bench of Sardinia, you can buy rings, earrings, necklaces and brooches from "Filigree Sarda" - the subtlest weightless lace, which keeps the ancient mystically symbols of this mysterious island.
In about forty villages located on the island, the traditions of folk weakness are still maintained. And everywhere differently - someone uses in the work only cotton and wool, someone real silk with silver and gold threads. Experts calculated that more than a hundred symbolic motives were used on Sardinia in the manufacture of carpets and tapestries. Today, such products are a real work of art and naturally tourists seek at least anything to bring home to memory or as a gift.
The history of ceramics in Sardinia goes to a very far past - even at that time when the very first settlements appeared on the island. Since then, the method of manufacturing products from ceramics is constantly improved, but the technique and tradition remained unchanged. And so far, all product elements are made exclusively manually. By tradition, the wizard uses such colors as black, white, red and blue, but at the same time they add pure gold and platinum. Thus, it turns out truly exclusive things.
Also on Sardinia for a long time, elegant and practical knives with handles made of mouflon horn are greatly popular. Here it is believed that such a knife must be necessarily for each real man. The most famous such knives as "Pattadez", produced in the town of Pattada, and "Arbizé" - in Arbus. At first they created simply as ordinary knives for processing the skins, and now they have become very elegant and sometimes even precious works of art.
Also on Sardinia it is very popular to make various things from the cortex of cork oak. Many local artisans and artists use this material to produce very original artwork. Visit souvenir benches of Sardinia, and you will see there many of the most diverse things.