Shopping in Siena: What to Buy

# Shopping in Siena: What to Buy

Siena's shopping is concentrated, traditional, and easy to navigate. Skip the obvious tourist trinkets.

Key facts

• Best traditional buys: panforte and ricciarelli (at Nannini or Bini), Sienese ceramics, olive oil, leather goods.
• Best shopping streets: Via di Citta, Via Banchi di Sopra (more modern), Via Banchi di Sotto.
• Skip: mass-produced 'Italy' magnets and Leaning Tower miniatures (this is Siena, not Pisa).
• Wine: buy at an enoteca, not a supermarket. The price is similar and the advice is better.
• Markets: Wednesday morning at La Lizza for food and household goods.

What I tell visitors

If you take one thing home, make it a wedge of panforte and a bottle of local olive oil. Both travel well.

Related guides

• Where To Eat
• Palio
• Gelato

Final word

Whatever brings you to Siena — food, the Palio, the Tuscan countryside — slow down. The city repays attention. If you have a tip to add or a correction, write us at redazione@visitsienaguide.it.