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Palermo / Italy
A landmark of Sicilian jewellery since 1890, Fiorentino has returned to Via Liberta with cases of Marco Bicego, Salvini, Piero Milano and Mattioli alongside its own creations. The Palermo boutique offers bespoke commissions and ships nationally through its online shop.
Best for Landmark of Sicilian jewellery since 1890
Palermo / Sicily / Online
The workshop sells hand-painted tiles alongside tableware and decorative ceramics, letting shoppers build murals or borders from individual pieces. Its current contact page places the business in Catania, not Palermo.
Best for Joyous hand-painted Sicilian tableware.
Palermo / Monastero di Santa Caterina / Online
Sicily's convent-pastry revival inside Palermo's Santa Caterina monastery — the nuns' secret recipes (cassata, biscotti ricci, fastucata) baked again and shipped.
Best for Cloister sweets from 500-year-old recipes.
Palermo / Via Colonna Rotta
Sette veli — the seven-layer cake, cassata, cannoli, and the Palermo patisserie that makes the sweetest desserts in Italy.
Best for Sette veli, cassata, cannoli, seven-layer cake.
C.da Tramontana, 90010 Ustica (Palermo), Sicily, Italy
Margherita Longo's certified-organic farm on Ustica grows the Slow Food Presidium Ustica lentils and makes island wines. Its olive oil comes from Sicilian groves around Erice in Trapani.
Best for Lenticchia di Ustica; island wines
Palermo / Italy
Al Qasr Ceramiche is a shop on Via Vittorio Emanuele in Palermo whose ceramics are all crafted and painted by hand.
Best for Hand-painted ceramics
Contrada Tramontana, Ustica (Palermo), Sicily
This five-generation organic farm grows the Slow Food Presidium Lenticchia di Ustica along with other legumes, olive oil and preserves. Guests can stay on at the farm.
Best for Lenticchia di Ustica (Ustica lentils)
Palermo / Italy
Ceramiche di Sicilia is a shop on Via Cavour in Palermo that sells a selection of artisanal ceramics.
Best for Artisanal ceramics
Palermo / Italy
Founded by Cavaliere Angelo Bracco in 1934, this Via Mariano Stabile jeweller in Palermo shows diamond solitaires, gold pieces and watches from Vulcain and other houses. Its atelier serves walk-in clients and takes orders through an online catalogue.
Best for Jewelry, watches, diamonds
Palermo / Italy
Nino Parrucca Ceramiche makes Sicilian ceramics by hand in Palermo, and sells them from Via San Lorenzo.
Best for Handmade Sicilian ceramics
Palermo, Italy
Palermo bespoke tailoring since 1970 — Sicilian craftsmanship blending Italian southern tradition with Anglo-Saxon style.
Best for Bespoke Suits
Sartoria Crimi was founded in Palermo in 1970 by Carmelo Crimi, who completed a long apprenticeship with established Italian tailors before establishing his own atelier. In 1993, his son Mauro joined the business, having specialized at the prestigious Scuola Secoli in Milan. Crimi's Tailor Shop is recognized among hundreds of Italian tailoring firms and ranks in the top ten of Italian excellence in bespoke tailoring for men. The shop serves international customers distinguished by their unique, inimitable style, combining the best tailoring traditions of Italy's south with stylistic elements of Anglo-Saxon taste. Known for meticulous hand-tailoring and custom suiting.
Palermo / Italy
Shahidi is a shop on Via Vittorio Emanuele in Palermo that sells rugs and ceramics made by artisans.
Best for Rugs and artisan ceramics
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Handmade coffa bags woven from dwarf-palm fiber in a family workshop in Palermo, Sicily, decorated with painted ceramics, pompoms and fringe in the traditional style of Sicilian farm and market totes; each bag takes about two days to make.
Best for Bags, Sicilian craft
Sicily Bag makes coffa - traditional Sicilian hand-woven totes - in a family workshop based in Palermo. Coffa bags originated as utilitarian carriers used by Sicilian farmers and cart-drivers, woven from dwarf-palm or reed fiber into a sturdy dome-shaped basket. Sicily Bag's pieces are woven by hand using select cuts of Sicilian dwarf palm and finished with painted ceramic medallions, pompoms, ribbons and fringe. Each bag reportedly takes about two days of hand work, consistent with a family-run atelier.
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A ceramic plate and a box of pastries make different demands on a journey home. This Palermo selection separates objects worth inspecting in person from sweets better chosen close to the time you will eat them. Use it to choose a few purposeful stops, not to fill a day with purchases you then have to carry.
Ceramiche De Simone offers decorative plates and vases alongside tablewareS1. Its official stockist list includes La Rinascente Palermo at Via Roma 289S2. This gives you a city retail address to ask about; it is not a promise that every piece in the online catalogue is displayed there.
I Segreti del Chiostro is inside the former Dominican monastery of Santa Caterina. The shop describes its work as recovering Sicilian convent pastry traditions, following recipes passed down from Palermo's enclosed religious communitiesS3. That is the reason to visit this particular pastry shop, rather than treating its setting as decoration.
Pasticceria Cappello lists two Palermo addresses: Via Colonna Rotta 68 and Via Nicolò Garzilli 19. Its account of the business describes Giovanni continuing his father Salvatore's pastry traditionS4. Choose the address that fits your day and contact that branch if there is a particular dessert you want.
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