Shopping in Serbia
Serbia attracts tourists with its beautiful architecture, beautiful nature, health resorts. A stay in this beautiful country will not be complete without visiting Orthodox shrines, excursions to galleries, museums and, of course, shopping..
For shopping in Serbia, you can go to the USCE shopping center in Belgrade, where you can meet your friends Sephora, Terranova, Zara, Adidas, Accessorize, Tally Weijl, Lush. The second noteworthy supermarket is «Delta City» in New Belgrade, there is also «Beograzhdanka» and «Millennium». It is recommended to buy fruit wine or brandy (plum brandy or williamovka) here, because small shops may not have them, but in duty free the choice is limited.
Popular shopping
- Shoes that all women of the Soviet Union wanted to have - «Teaching Beograd»: the quality is high, but the models are not for everybody. Leather production has been developed in Serbia since socialist times, therefore shoes, bags, gloves, belts are durable and strong. Opants - Serbian clogs with curved noses are made of genuine leather and 100% by hand. You can buy full-sized ones, or you can buy miniature ones - such a two-centimeter souvenir.
- You can bring products from Kolubar lace - napkins, collars, tablecloths, etc., but this is handmade, Irish crochet technology and such things are quite expensive.
- Good underwear and knitwear of Serbian production Extreme Intimo in bright and funny colors. It is better to buy these things either in supermarkets or in small chain stores..
- Souvenirs in the national style - gingerbread hearts. In Sambir, painted gingerbread hearts have been made for about a hundred years, and they say they are the most delicious there. In Novi Sad, in the Petrovaradin fortress, you can buy an original T-shirt with Serbian symbols in an unusual round box worth about 20 euros. The national Serbian headdress of the Šaikac is a green cap-pie, it is still worn by the Serbs true to the traditions, sold in all souvenir shops.
- There are many Orthodox shrines in Serbia - the Studenica and Sopočany monasteries are included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. Orthodox icons can be bought in church shops at churches.
- In the supermarket or at the grocery market, you can buy a jug with dried plums, a true Serbian souvenir. In many shops in Serbian towns you can buy olive oil and goat cheeses. These are Greek goods, but they are so tasty, and it doesn't matter who produced them - they were bought in Serbia. You can also buy an embroidered bag of basil or real honey in clay pots, healthy and tasty, such a souvenir will definitely not gather dust on the shelf.
