Shopping in Marche Region - authentic goods, best outlets, malls and boutiques

Marche region is popular among the tourists, who want to buy clothes and shoes from the world brands at low prices. The factories of many well-known Italian brands are located here, so it is possible to buy the products directly, without margins and mediators. For the best bargains go to the outlets. You will easily find them on a map, and you can go to the most of them by the public transport.

Macerata Glamour Store is one of the biggest places, selling original brands at low prices. Do you know such brands as Versace, Moschino, Richmond, Trussardi, Valentino, Armani? Those and many other popular brands you may find in Glamour Store. If you want your purchase to be tailored to your size, there is an atelier, where you can also order sewing anything else you want. You can buy unsold brand clothes at a 70% discount. Remember, the outlet is closed on Sundays.

Go to Piu Bello and GISA shoe boutiques, which has a wide range of products and nice prices. Do you like Prada products? Then visit the same name outlet. By the way, there is the widest in Italy range of shoes in Marche. To buy the shoes, you should better visit a “spatch”, a shop, located right in a factory. Obviously, there are manufacturing prices here, no margins for the mediators’ services. But sometimes it can be hard to get there, as the productions are usually located outside the cities. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

You should visit Del Gatto if you like high heels. Lady Doc is specialized exclusively on bags and shoes for women. At Fabi, you can buy products from the previous season line for half a price. Here you can also file Tax-Free. NandoMuzi, Roberto Botticelli, Loriblu, Gianmarco Lorenzi, Cesare Paciotti, GianRos, Ixos, Andrea Morelli, Nero Giardini, TOD'S – each of these most famous brands have a factory and a company shop in Marche. There are a lot of not such well-known companies in the region. So, if you want to buy a pair of shoes or a bag, there is no wider range or better prices then in Marche. In the whole, you can conditionally divide the region into three zones. In Porto Sant’Ellpidio there are factories and shops, that produce and sell women's shoes, in Montegranaro – men’s shoes, in Monte Urano – kid’s shoes.

However, you may bring home more than just shoes and clothes from Marche. If you are a gourmet, certainly buy truffles and pit cheese. The latter you won’t find anywhere else outside this region. You should also acknowledge the salami. It is made here from pork, sheep, and with lard. The latter is called lardellato and is most popular in Carpegna and Montefeltro. An original dish, that you should buy, if your trip home is not very long, is ciauscolo, a sausage, which contains an orange peel and is spread on bread as a paste.

Do you want to buy a unique delicacy, which will remind of Marche and won’t get bad on the road back home? Then buy stoccafisso, a dried cod, produced in Ancona. Just remember to soak it before cooking, otherwise, the taste won’t be good. You can also buy local honey. Among the spirits, there are verdicchio, white wine, made from the local grapes. Do you want something stronger? Then bring from Marche Amaro Sibilla, a bitter liqueur from Varnelli, in which, except honey, they also add local herbs and roots.