Shopping in Elba Island
Shopping is one of the favourite activities if you are relaxed and far from day to day stress.
You can discover typical hand-made local products, coloured boutiques, interesting souvenir stalls, small antique shops and shops that sell minerals where you will surely find a souvenir of your holiday on Elba.
Another opportunity for the
shopping to the island in Elba is given
by the weekly mercatinis, present in almost
all the most important centers of the island.
The market, in prevalence composed by stands
of attire, grocerieses and products for
the house, he takes place only the morning,
with fixed dates every week.
Those more important, for the greatest number
of stands, they are to Marina of Field the
Wednesday and the Friday to Portoferraio.
A note summer characteristic is represented instead by the evening mercatinis, different for every place. While the market that develops him the morning, during the whole arc of the year, it is practically a market itinerante, the evening mercatinis are fixed mainly and you exclusively introduce in the summer months. They are stands that you/they sell objects of craftsmanship, very characteristic and you/they can find you nice objects for small gifts, but also products of local craftsmanship, to bring with you as memory of your stay to the Elba.
