Most tourists, especially the fair sex, try to combine business with pleasure during their travels - lounging on the beach, visiting interesting exhibitions and museums, sightseeing and, of course, wandering around the local shopping centers and shops. This fully applies to Rimini - this Italian resort has long been chosen by budget shopping fans who prefer high-quality mid-range products to trendy and ultra-expensive branded items.
What to bring from Rimini
You can buy almost everything in Rimini, but the shopaholics pay special attention to clothes and shoes of popular brands of the middle price category such as Motivi, Guess, Bershka, as well as products manufactured by Italian factories that are not inferior in quality to expensive branded items.
Shops in Rimini offer a magnificent assortment of fashionable clothes, underwear, excellent leather shoes and bags, luxurious fur coats, elegant accessories, magnificent jewelry, cosmetics and perfumes, household items - textiles, dishes, all kinds of interior gizmos.
Special attention is paid to shopaholics for mid-range products
It should be noted that prices here are an order of magnitude lower than for similar goods in Russian stores - economy shopping in Rimini allows you to replenish or even completely update your wardrobe without much impact on the budget.
Do not forget about traditional Italian delicacies - from Rimini, as well as from other cities of the Apennine peninsula, you can bring excellent pasta, excellent olive oil, amazing Italian wine and, of course, incredibly tasty and fragrant Italian cheeses. However, we already wrote about edible souvenirs from Italy - details are here.
Shops and shopping in and around Rimini
The most expensive stores are located in the historical center of the city - here, on Tre Martiri Square, you will find single-brand stores and world-famous designer brands with items from the latest collections: Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, etc.
Those planning a budget shopping should go to Corso d'Augusto, where there are both small boutiques and souvenir shops, as well as the famous Italian department stores Coin and Standa, offering excellent quality products: clothing for the whole family, home textiles, perfumes.
Budget Shopping in Rimini at Corso d'Augusto
The Malatesta shopping gallery on Via Emilia is very popular with both tourists and Italians themselves - there are about forty stores selling linen, clothes, shoes, household appliances. Approximately the same assortment, but presented much wider, you will find in the shopping center Le Befane, located on Via Caduti di Nassiriya. Le Befan presents products from Nike, Max & Co, Calvin Klein, Benetton, North Sails, Sisley and many others - there are more than one hundred and thirty stores in the mall offering clothes, shoes, cosmetics, perfumes, household appliances and electronics, as well as jewelry and all kinds of souvenirs.
There are outlets in Rimini - large stores that present designer items from past collections with significant discounts, the size of which during the sales period reaches 80%. The main outlets, according to tradition, are located in the suburbs. Italian shoes and fur coats are best purchased in stores owned by manufacturing factories - this guarantees the quality of the goods, as well as very pleasant factory prices.
A real paradise for shopaholics - the Republic of San Marino
Not far from Rimini there is also a real paradise for shopaholics - the Republic of San Marino, which is a duty-free zone. In San Marino, people usually go for a variety of spirits, watches, leather goods and perfumes, as well as branded clothes presented in large outlets - Factory Outlet, Azzurro or Atlante.
Shopping in Rimini: opening hours of shops
Rimini's shops - both grocery and industrial, operate from 8-9 a.m. until 19-19.30 p.m. with a mandatory break in the middle of the day - from 13 to 15 p.m. Most stores, with the exception of large shopping centers, are closed on Sunday, and often on Saturday afternoons. Shops do not work during public and national holidays.
The most expensive shops in Rimini are located in Tre Martiri Square
In August, many retailers close for the holidays - this period falls on the second and third week of the month, for this reason it does not make sense to plan a grand shopping in Rimini at the end of summer.
Sales and Tax Free
Sales in Rimini take place twice a year: winter starts in January and lasts almost until mid-March, while summer starts in mid July and lasts until the end of summer. Exact sales dates are set in advance and officially announced through the media.
During sales in Italy, discounts on goods range from 20 to 70% in order to attract as many customers as possible, shops and shopping centers annually develop new discount systems and invent interesting offers for their customers.
Incredibly delicious cheeses can be brought from Rimini
Save more on shopping in rimini allows the Tax Free system, which provides an opportunity for citizens of non-EU countries to return VAT (value added tax), the amount of which in Italy minus the administrative tax is 14.5%. You can apply for Tax Free at the airport or train station by presenting to the customs officer a receipt for payment of the goods, the goods themselves in packaged form and a passport. By the way, in more detail about this system BlogoItaliano wrote in the article Shopping in Milan: Outlets, sales and Tax Free. Good luck with your shopping.
Photos by: Aidan McMichael, popaitaly, rivieradirimini, gianluca_braschi, HannyKa, Adriano Tresin.
