what is spain famous for, shopping wise
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Ceramics, Toledo steel, Filigree silver.<BR>I found an artist in a street market selling his original watercolor white village cityscapes. Really pretty and very reasonable. Cost me more to have them framed when I got back than what I had paid for the paintings!!
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<BR>A previous poster mentioned this, but didn't go into a lot of detail. While still not cheap, saffron is MUCH less expensive in Spain than in the US. It is sold in boxes, some of which are as big as kitchen match boxes, in grocery stores in Spain, and the price of these boxes is actually not in the three figures (which it would be in the US). A great purchase if you or your friends love to cook.<BR><BR>Also there is Sargadelos contemporary decorative ceramics and dinnerware, which is very well known in Spain but apparently not so elsewhere. You can check it out at www.sargadelos.com. There is even a "knock-off" of the real Saragadelos which I have seen for sale in the tourist shops in Santiago de Compostela.<BR><BR>The traditional ceramics and tiles of Andalucia are legend, but there are several modern lines inspired by ancient Moorish designs - these can be found in better tourist shops in Andalucian towns. ("Wallada" and "Al Yavvar" are two that come to mind, though please don't trust my spelling). <BR><BR>CDs! CDs are expensive in Europe, but naturally the selection of Spanish music much better in Spain - "tunas" (groups of student traditional singers, not fish), Galacian and Asturian bagpipe music (Carlos Nunez, Milladoirio, Jose Angel Hevia to name a few popular ones), and so on.<BR><BR><BR>