5 Best Places to Shopping in Cusco

Do you think that Peru is a country just for visiting historical places? As the main tourist center of this country, Cusco reserves surprises that go beyond city tours through museums, churches, and archaeological sites.

For those who enjoy shopping and taking home souvenirs from the visited place, Cusco has an infinity of souvenirs to gift to family and friends when you return to your country.

As Peru is one of the biggest silver extractors in the world, and also for handicrafts, you won’t be able to resist taking a piece of decoration, work of art, or typical Peruvian object. They are colorful clothes, fabrics made of wool from alpacas or vicuñas, and Andean paintings, that is, a diversified market that is part of the tourism that sustains this region.

Discover now, the 5 amazing stores in Cusco where to find traditional textiles:

Cusco Main Square

Being the main center of the city, Plaza de Armas is full of shops around it, all with special items and purely Peruvian products for you to gift someone. And the best, good prices are found and a lot of bargaining you can do to get advantages for both sides.

In addition, there are other squares and streets nearby that also have galleries and stores with a wide variety of pieces, and street vendors that present all kinds of products, including silver and gold jewelry, stones, leather, clothes, and fabrics made with alpacas wool and vicuñas, ceramics and wood. The variety of products and price is wide, and what matters is haggling. Great place to get high-quality alpaca clothing.

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San Blas Neighborhood

This is the neighborhood of artisans, considered artists and bohemians who produce exclusive elements presented in art galleries, stores, and, especially, in the famous handicraft fair that takes place every Saturday in the square next to the neighborhood church.

Differentiated, the products there are wonderful works of “Obras de Arte” art in paintings, sculptures, and carved in wood. It is in this same place where you can visit the Hilario Mendivil Museum, a place with an exhibition of works by this 20th-century artist, so well known among Peruvians.

Handcraft Establishment.

At the end of Cusco’s main avenue, Avenida El Sol, you will find the Centro Artesanal, a place maintained by the City Hall so that vendors can exhibit their products, and visitors can enjoy and shop for souvenirs and gifts typical of Peru.

Exhibited in stands, the variety is wide, ranging from t-shirts, key chains, and small pieces for souvenirs, to artistic pieces. It’s a place to spend time with clothing stores and enjoy the delicious Peruvian food in the cafeterias.

Chinchero

This is a very native village of the Incas, which is located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Their main source of income is the production of handcrafted, old-fashioned fabrics made by the local people. When we say “old fashioned”, we mean that they are made with secular techniques, just as the Incas produced in their time.

It is all handmade and without the use of artificial materials “Centro de Textiles Tradicionales”. The Peruvian textiles are taken from nature, the wool is taken from sheep, alpacas (baby alpacas included), or vicuñas, and the dyes to color the fabrics made from this wool, using various natural substances, and even salt and lemon for a simple color change.

The prints are typically traditional from the Andean culture, and there is a demonstration and explanation of the entire process of dyeing the fabrics and manufacturing the pieces. This is a place where you buy a piece that has been made on the spot, and according to the colors you have chosen, within the forms of the local culture, of course.

San Pedro Market

The most famous street market in Cusco, where it is possible to try local food, get some souvenirs, and buy vegetables and fruits. There are a lot of options there. Are you looking for a fancy alpaca sweater, this place is an awesome place to get this at a low cost. don’t forget to negotiate the price, you can get a lot of things with little money, so why not bring something from Peru to your relatives or folks?


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