SHOPPING
The essentials
Fabro
Fabro is 20 minutes away, down the hill from Il Nido. It has nearly all the essentials you will need during your stay:-
Two Banks and cash points that take international cards (Visa, Mastercard etc.)
Two supermarkets (Coop) (Sidis) that sell vegetables, fruit, bread and meat.
Two bakeries.
Several butchers
One Bar and cake shop.
Three ordinary bars.
Two green grocers.
One grocer
One fresh pasta shop which also sells sauces for pasta.
Two restaurants for pizze and other food.
Several hairdressers
Also there are hardware shops, opticians, travel agents, flower shops etc.
Beyond the essentials ....
Orvieto
Orvieto is a much larger city than the town of Fabro with a large number of souvenir shops in the Via del Duomo and Via Corso.
The great speciality of Orvieto is ceramics.
Some of the vast range of ceramics available in Orvieto.
As well as ceramics Orvieto is famous for its wooden carvings. There are also shops for hand made leather goods and other crafts are well represented.
Orvieto has a number of speciality food shops and many shops for clothes and shoes.
Buying ceramics direct.
Some of the ceramics are made in Orvieto but most in the small towns around Orvieto or in Deruta. Ficulle the first town between Castel di Fiori and Orvieto has some ceramic workshops that make the distinctive Ficulle ware that has been made and used there rom the 16th century .
Deruta has a huge range of products and is in fact overwhelming. There is a small but interesting ceramics museum in the town centre. The large factories surrounding the hilltop village will show interested tourists around the manufacturing plant where it is possible to see artists painting plates, vases etc. All have showrooms and ceramics can be purchased here as well as in the village streets.
Perugia
Perugia is a city (pop about 350,000). Perugia is situated on a large rock. The city is entered from a car park at the bottom of the rock via a series of escalators that emerge at the top of the Via Vanucci - the main street of the historic centre. The Umbrian National Gallery in Perugia has a large collection of Perugino paintings. There are many hotels, ristorante, bars and fashionable shops in Perugia. On the plain around the city are many large shopping centres and wholesale/retail outlets including Mediaworld that sells the latest electrical and IT goods.
Montefalco
Montefalco is a centre for Umbrian textiles and the Umbrian wine called Sagrantino. There are several shops in the centre of the small town that sell exquisite fabrics, tablecloths, bedspreads, sheets, and curtain lengths of locally made textile. One is opposite the church of San Francesco now converted to a museum and gallery and in which one can see a series of Gozzoli frescoes representing the life of Saint Frances who is not only the patron saint of Italy but also the local boy of Umbria.