7 Best Places to Shop in The Dolomites, Italy

This is the largest store for locally made handcrafted goods.

From the end of November to the first week after New Year's there's a traditional Christkindlmarkt in Piazza Walther, with stalls selling all kinds of Christmas decorations and local handcrafted goods.

A bit outside the town center, this atmospheric shop is laden with wines, sweets, and other local products.

This specialty food shop boasts an impressive array of sauces, as well as wines, grappas, and liqueurs. A picnic can be handily assembled from a huge assortment of local salamis and cheeses.

You can pick up meats, cheeses, produce, local truffles, and porcini mushrooms at the small morning market in the square.

A weekly flea market takes place Saturday morning in Piazza della Vittoria.

Merano's narrow, arcaded main shopping street runs west from the cathedral. Here you can find regional products—wood carvings, Tyrolean-style clothing, embroidery, cheeses, salami, and fruit schnapps—alongside standard clothing-boutique stock.