Venice, Italy is one of the places where you can enjoy the wonderful monuments, statues and fountains as you walk around downtown for some serious shopping. Shops in Venice offer a variety of goods from high fashion, antiques, furniture, and home accessories.

Venice is known for its fine silks and gorgeous velvets. There are numerous shops around Venice that sell an enormous range of beautiful fabrics.

Venetian glassware has been for over 700 years in the island of Murano. Factories in Murano have large showrooms where they could display their simple, traditional designs and contemporary glassware.

Masks from Venice are known all over the world. Cheap and mass-produced masks are abundantly sold throughout the city. However, if you want the genuine ones, the Laboratorio Artigiano Maschere in Castello specializes in traditional mask making and offers some splendid and eye-catching designs.

The Rialto fish and produce market is a delight for chefs and food lovers. It is here where you can find fish varieties found only in the Venetian Lagoon. The fishes here are so fresh that you can still see them moving in their containers filled with crushed ice.