Must-see shopping in San Polo & Santa Croce

Second-generation opticians and first-class stylists, the Vascellari family discern eyewear needs with a glance at your prescription and a long look to…

With a clientele ranging from Hollywood stars to New York socialites, Stefano and Daniele Attombri’s contemporary glass jewellery embraces art deco,…

If you’ve been eyeing up the natty striped T-shirts, devilishly soft winter wool hats and crepe pants sported by Venice’s gondoliers then make a beeline…

Mornings are best to catch the 1930s Heidelberg machine in action, but whenever you arrive, you'll find mementos hot off the proverbial press…

Add a Venetian eye for colour to a Japanese flair for sculptural fashion, and here you have it: teal mohair tube scarves that float around the collarbone…

Couple Tiziano and Vanessa use a variety of printmaking techniques including silk screen and xylograph to create handmade T-shirts and bags, some with…

The window display offers a tantalising hint at the custom jewellery this versatile goldsmiths’ atelier can create for you, with original designs that nod…

Yes, you actually can take a gondola home in your pocket. Anyone fascinated by the models at the Museo Storico Navale will go wild here, amid handmade…

Made you look: these Murano glass jewels in bold colours and shapes have the attention-getting powers of traffic lights. Cascades of lilac beads cluster…

Ziggurats of sun-dried tomatoes, leaning towers of star anise and chorus lines of olive oils draw awestruck foodies to Mascari’s windows. Indoors, chefs…

Glass menageries don’t get more fascinating than the one created before your eyes by Signor Amadi. Fierce little glass crabs approach pink-tipped coral,…

When you start feeling the effects of all those spritz sessions, pick up some healing herbs at this vintage pharmacy. Adorned with 19th-century woodwork…

The same thought occurs to many people after hearing a concert in Venice: is it too late to take up an instrument? The easiest would be harmonica or…

Pied à Terre’s colourful furlane (Venetian slippers) are handcrafted with recycled bicycle tyre treads, ideal for finding your footing on a gondola…

Sailors, pirates and armchair seafarers should navigate to this canalside storefront, which stocks every maritime map and sailor's-knot manual needed for…

Gabriele Gmeiner honed her shoemaking craft at Hermès and John Lobb, and today jet-setters fly to Venice just for her ultra-sleek Oxfords with hidden …

A magnet for local students and tourists looking for something out of the ordinary, this delightful unisex clothing store stocks unusual labels, with a…

This store sells women's clothing in luxury natural fabrics from Italian fashion labels you can't find elsewhere in the city. There's also a small range…