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- 10 Corso Como Milan / Online
Carla Sozzani's pioneering concept universe — fashion, art, books, and the courtyard café that invented the genre. Established 1991. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acqua di Parma Parma / Online
Italian Eau de Cologne house founded in 1916, centered on Colonia’s signature bergamot-citrus profile and the brand’s distinctive Parma-yellow presentation. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alessi Omegna / Piedmont / Online
The design factory on Lake Orta — Sapper kettles, Graves birds, and Italian design wit since 1921. 1983 Tea & Coffee Piazza research with Alessandro Mendini led to Michael Graves and Aldo Rossi entering the catalogue. store page → · open in the atlas → - Artemide Milan / Online
Milan lighting company founded 1959 by Ernesto Gismondi and Sergio Mazza, maker of Richard Sapper's 1972 Tizio lamp and Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina's 1986 Tolomeo, both held in MoMA and the Met's permanent collections. store page → · open in the atlas → - B&B Italia Novedrate / Lombardy / Online
Founded 1966 in Novedrate as C&B Italia by Piero Ambrogio Busnelli and Cesare Cassina, renamed B&B in 1973; HQ is a 1972 building by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Mario Bellini's modular Camaleonda sofa, launched 1970, was reissued in 2020. store page → · open in the atlas → - Barilla Via Dei Condotti, Rome / Online
Parma’s pasta colossus since 1877 — the blue box on every Italian shelf, plus the premium Voiello and Academia Barilla lines. store page → · open in the atlas →
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- A. Picci Como (Via Vittorio Emanuele II)
Run by three generations of the Picci family since 1919, this Como shop sells hand-sewn pure silk ties, foulards and pocket squares from its counter on Via Vittorio Emanuele II. The Lombardy Region lists it among its historic businesses. store page → · open in the atlas → - A.Testoni Bologna / Online
Bologna shoemaker since 1929 — Amedeo Testoni's Bolognese construction method defines lightweight Italian footwear craftsmanship. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acetaia Giusti Modena / Online
Giusti has aged balsamic vinegar in the attic barrel cellars — the 'Antiche Acetaie' — of its Modena estate since 1605, a date the house wears as its claim to being the world's oldest balsamic producer. The Strada Quattro Ville site pairs working production with the Museo Giusti and guided tastings, feeding six boutiques from Milan to Catania. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acetaia Malpighi Modena / Italy
A Modena family has aged Traditional Balsamic Vinegar DOP here since 1850, tending some 3,500 barrels. Bottles and seasonings sell through the online shop, and the acetaia offers free guided tours and tastings. store page → · open in the atlas → - Altea Milan, Italy
Milanese accessories and knitwear house founded 1892 by Giuseppe Sartori as a necktie shop near Via Montenapoleone; the Altea trademark was formalized in 1946, known for brushed-wool knitwear made in Umbria and Marche. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Barbieria Colla Milan / Online
Milan barbershop operating since 1904, with its own shaving creams, aftershaves and grooming preparations sold from the historic shop near the Duomo. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Dolceria Bonajuto Modica / Sicily / Online
Sicily's oldest chocolate maker, founded in Modica in 1880 by Francesco Bonajuto after his family moved from ice selling into confectionery. Still cold-worked using the low-temperature, unrefined method of Aztec origin, without conching, producing the grainy Modica-style chocolate the town is known for. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Farmacia di Brera Milan / Italy
This Milan pharmacy, open since 1812 in the Brera quarter, is a 'boutique of medicine' offering over-the-counter drugs, supplements, dermocosmetics and its own product line. An in-house point-of-care lab lets customers run quick analyses on the spot. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Macelleria Falorni Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
Run by nine generations of the same family since 1806, this butcher on Greve's central Piazza Matteotti cures Tuscan salami, finocchiona, and prosciutto alongside cuts of local beef. The historic shop sits beside a bistro and an online store that ships the family's cold cuts. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Manifattura Cappelli Rome / Prati / Online
Rome’s oldest hat workshop — the Cirri family’s 1936 laboratorio, revived by Patrizia Fabri; the only hatter honored as a Historical Shop of Rome, blocking on original wooden forms in Via degli Scipioni. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antico Caffè Greco Gourmet & Food, Rome / Online
Rome's historic literary café since 1760 at Via Condotti 85-86, hosting artists and writers with velvet rooms and an extensive art collection. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antico Martini Venice / San Marco
1720 — the theatre district restaurant. Fresh fish, the campanile view, and the Venetian dining room that has hosted every diva since the opera house opened. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ascione Coral Museum & Atelier Naples — Galleria Umberto I / Online
A Torre del Greco coral house, founded 1855 — six generations of Neapolitan coral, cameos and mother-of-pearl worked since the Bourbon court; the atelier and small museum share the Galleria Umberto salon. store page → · open in the atlas → - Astorflex Mantua / Online
Po-valley moccasin family (six generations) — vegetable-tanned desert boots at honest prices. After WWI the small Fratelli Travenzoli firm began making several footwear types with the Ideal method, which official history says is still the base of most shoes. store page → · open in the atlas → - Babington's Tea Rooms Rome / Italy
Babington's Tea Rooms opened on December 4, 1893, at Via Due Macelli 66 near Piazza di Spagna in Rome, founded by two young women, Anna Maria Babington and Isabel Cargill — granddaughter of Captain William Cargill, founder of Dunedin, New Zealand — who invested 100 pounds of their own savings into a tea and reading room for Rome's Anglo-Saxon community. store page → · open in the atlas → - Badia a Coltibuono Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
Winemaking has gone on at this former Vallombrosan abbey since 1051, and the Stucchi Prinetti family now farms it organically for Chianti Classico and estate extra-virgin olive oil. The 800-hectare property also runs a wine resort, restaurant and cellar tastings. store page → · open in the atlas → - Baracchi Winery Localita Cegliolo, Cortona, Tuscany
A family estate founded in 1860 and now in its fifth generation under Benedetto Baracchi, farming around thirty hectares across four Cortona DOC sites. It bottles the Smeriglio Syrah and Sangiovese and traditional-method Brut sparklers, with enologist Riccardo Cotarella consulting. store page → · open in the atlas → - Baratti & Milano Turin / Galleria Subalpina / Online
Baratti & Milano has operated as a café-confectioner in Turin's Galleria Subalpina since 1858. The house is known for its gianduiotti and cremini chocolates, still sold today in the same belle-époque jewel-box tins. store page → · open in the atlas → - Barbarulo / Gemelli da Polso (4 generations) Historic & Traditional Shops, Naples / Online
Naples goldsmith atelier founded 1894 by Raffaele Barbarulo, documented via his 1894 marriage record; now run by his great-grandson Cristiano Barbarulo, the fourth-generation jeweller, since 2012. store page → · open in the atlas → - Barone Ricasoli - Castello di Brolio Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
The Ricasoli family has farmed the land around Castello di Brolio since 1141, and their ancestor Bettino codified the original Chianti recipe here in the 19th century. The 1,200-hectare estate produces Chianti Classico and Gran Selezione wines plus olive oil and vinegar, with an online shop, osteria and castle tours. store page → · open in the atlas → - Barovier & Toso Murano / Venice / Online
Murano glass dynasty since 1295 — handcrafted blown-glass chandeliers and lighting by master artisans using traditional techniques, the oldest continuous family business in glassmaking. store page → · open in the atlas →
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- Accademia Punto Assisi Centro storico, Via Metastasio 18, Assisi
This academy preserves and teaches Punto Assisi and Madama Caterina embroidery, the counted-thread needlework that takes its name from the town. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acquolina in Bocca Brescia
Acquolina in Bocca is an artisan confectionery in Brescia making chocolates, pralines and sweet specialities by hand. Production centres on high-quality Italian ingredients across a rotating seasonal range. store page → · open in the atlas → - Agricola Ricucci Rodi Garganico, Gargano, Puglia
A family organic farm on the Gargano coast since 1850, Agricola Ricucci grows certified-organic Gargano citrus—oranges, lemons and bitter oranges—alongside extra-virgin olive oil and citrus jams. A Slow Food member, it ships its harvest through its own online shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Agriturismo Hibiscus (Az. agricola biologica - Margherita Longo) 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. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alessandra Camilla Milano Brera (Via Solferino, 3) / Online
Milan jewellery atelier producing handmade gold pieces with coloured gemstones and custom commissions. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alimentari da Caio Via Garibaldi, Bellagio
Alimentari da Caio is a small grocery on Via Garibaldi in Bellagio's old centre, run by Claudio Moneta and stocked with olive oils pressed around Lake Como, including a Bellagio oil and a Vanini oil. Its shelves gather wine, pesto, truffle products and balsamic from small Italian producers across Umbria, Sicily and Puglia. store page → · open in the atlas → - Altura Isola del Giglio (Tuscan Archipelago), Grosseto
Francesco Carfagna restored the island's abandoned dry-stone terraces, the greppe, to grow Ansonica on Giglio's granite. Hand-harvested and made with native yeasts, the wines centre on the skin-contact Altura Ansonaco white, with a little red alongside. store page → · open in the atlas → - Anna Matuozzo Viale Antonio Gramsci 26, Naples / Online
Neapolitan shirtmaker creating hand-sewn, made-to-measure shirts at its appointment-led Viale Antonio Gramsci atelier and through online consultation. store page → · open in the atlas → - Annafietta - Mosaicisti in Ravenna Ravenna (near Basilica di San Vitale)
Annafietta makes mosaics using the Byzantine musive technique, with glass-paste tesserae hand-cut one by one. Since 2000 the workshop, on Via Argentario near the Basilica di San Vitale, has also sold materials for do-it-yourself projects. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Cappelleria Malaguti Via Galliera
A hat shop on Via Galliera since 1870, Antica Cappelleria Malaguti sells and restores handmade hats and caps for men and women. The business traces its origins to felt-making in Bologna's old ghetto quarter. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Cartotecnica Piazza dei Caprettari, Rome, Italy
Antica Cartotecnica has traded from Piazza dei Caprettari in Rome since 1930, when Elisa Berti and her family opened the shop. Alongside fountain pens, ink and fine paper, it still offers pen repair and custom printing of stationery and letterhead. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antichi Sapori d'Amalfi Amalfi (Via Supportico Gaetano Afeltra)
This Amalfi producer makes real Amalfi limoncello along with other lemon and cream liqueurs, organic jams and honey. Tastings run in the historic centre. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antico Borgo Saraceno Cetara
A Cetara producer trading on the village's Saracen-tower history, bottling colatura di alici and packing tuna fillets alongside a hand-made Amalfi Coast limoncello. The line pairs the harbour's cured-fish craft with the citrus of the surrounding lemon terraces. store page → · open in the atlas → - Armatore Cetara
A Cetara house built around the village's fishing fleet, curing anchovies and packing tuna, mackerel and other Mediterranean fish in oil. Its Cetara anchovies and colatura carry the salt-cellar traditions of the Amalfi Coast harbour. store page → · open in the atlas → - Assisi Sapori Via Sant'Agnese 4, near Basilica di Santa Chiara, Assisi
This independent gourmet shop in central Assisi gathers typical Umbrian foods: Norcia cured meats, truffles, local cheeses and torta al testo. It also carries artisanal pasta, oils, honey and regional wines and craft beers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Atelier Siculo Catania, Aci Sant'Antonio
A working tailoring atelier making theatrical costumes, dancewear, custom drapery and personalized embroidery to measure. The workshop splits its trade between Catania and nearby Aci Sant'Antonio. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Cesani San Gimignano, Tuscany
The Cesani family farm at San Gimignano makes Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Chianti, saffron and olive oil. An online shop and tastings extend the estate's reach. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Demetrio Calveri (Bergamot.it) Reggio Calabria, Calabria
This Reggio Calabria farm sells fresh bergamot fruit and bergamot essential oil directly from the producer. Run as Azienda Agricola Demetrio Calveri, it trades under the Bergamot.it name. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Fontuccia Isola del Giglio (Tuscan Archipelago), Grosseto
The Rossi family farms Giglio's traditional terraced greppe, working the steep plots by hand. Their Ansonaco whites and other small-production island bottlings have become a benchmark of the Giglio wine revival. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola La Lastra San Gimignano, Siena
La Lastra farms organically near the walls of San Gimignano. Its cellar bottles Vernaccia di San Gimignano and Chianti Colli Senesi. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Marchetti Pinocchio d'Ancona, Ancona, Marche
This historic Ancona family winery works estate vineyards on the edge of the city. It produces Rosso Conero alongside Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Moroder Montacuto, Ancona, Marche
Set within the Conero regional park in the Ancona municipality, Moroder produces benchmark Rosso Conero DOC. The estate also runs a restaurant and guest rooms. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Bio Agrituristica Pagliuzzo 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. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azzurra Capri Capri island
Azzurra makes the classic Caprese thong sandal by hand, offering custom straps and coloured stones assembled on the spot. Its leather styles follow the island's long tradition of made-to-measure footwear. store page → · open in the atlas → - Balzer Città Bassa (Sentierone)
Balzer has run as a pasticceria in Bergamo's lower town since 1850 and holds the license to Polenta e Osèi, the marzipan-and-sponge cake shaped like a mound of polenta topped with little birds. It also makes the Donizetti Cake, a hazelnut-and-liqueur sweet named for the Bergamo-born composer Gaetano Donizetti. store page → · open in the atlas → - Barindelli e Trezzi Piazza Mazzini, Bellagio, Como
Trading under Bellagio's lakefront arcades since 1944, Barindelli e Trezzi makes silk ties, scarves and handmade leather bags, plus individually crafted umbrellas, drawing on family lines in wool-spinning and leatherwork. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bastah Oltrarno / Online
Florence-based ready-to-wear label headquartered in the San Frediano/Oltrarno district; sells clothing and accessories through themed seasonal collections online and in store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bazar Ginostra (Sapori di Stromboli) Ginostra, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, Sicily
This family bazaar in the tiny Ginostra settlement on Stromboli gathers island products under its 'Sapori di Stromboli' label. The range runs from Stromboli capers and island extra-virgin olive oil to limoncello and chilli. store page → · open in the atlas →
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- alab'Arte Volterra / Italy
alab'Arte is the last active alabaster-carving workshop in Volterra, where artisans Roberto Chiti and Giorgio Finazzo hand-sculpt one-of-a-kind pieces from genuine alabaster rather than imitation materials. Finished sculptures and lighting are sold from their shop on Via Don Minzoni, a short walk from the Via Orti di Sant'Agostino workshop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antonia Milan / Brera / Online
Milan luxury multi-brand boutique founded in 1999 by Antonia Giacinti; partner Maurizio Purificato opened a men's store in 2007, and in 2013 both were combined into the Palazzo Cagnola on Via Cusani in the Brera district, since expanded to Macao and Wuhan. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aurora Turin / Online
Turin's Aurora has made fountain pens since 1919 and remains one of a handful of makers anywhere still grinding its own gold nibs in-house, alongside fellow Italian maker Visconti. Its Ottantotto (88) and Optima lines are produced from resin and precious materials at the company's own workshop. store page → · open in the atlas →
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- 120% Lino Italy / Online
120% Lino is an Italian linen clothing label selling its own shirts, dresses and tailored separates for men and women through its online shop, with a network of flagship stores listed under its Stores page. The Spring/Summer 2026 collection focuses on naturally dyed linen in shades the brand calls soft fade. store page → · open in the atlas → - A. Erre Moda Via francesco crispi 137 139/a, bari / Italy
A. Erre Moda is a Bari clothing shop specializing in plus-size fashion for men and women up to size 14XL, with in-house personal shoppers and tailors to help with fit. The store posts regular new-arrival and sale updates from its Via Francesco Crispi address, most recently a summer sale of up to 50% off. store page → · open in the atlas → - A.G. Spalding & Bros. Milano / Via Manzoni / Online
American heritage sportswear — the Italian-made collection, baseball jackets, and the brand that brought varsity style to Milan. store page → · open in the atlas → - A.mano Capri Capri island
A.mano cuts and assembles leather sandals by hand in the Caprese tradition, letting customers choose straps, buckles and stones for a made-to-measure fit. Each pair is finished in genuine Italian leather while the buyer waits. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acca Kappa Treviso / Online
Grooming and fragrance house founded 1869 near Treviso by German bristle merchant Hermann Krüll, who began in Venice trading bristles before entering brush manufacturing; historically brush supplier to the British Royal Family, it launched its first fragrance, White Moss, in 1997. store page → · open in the atlas → - Accademia Gallery Florence, Tuscany
Michelangelo's David — the 5.17-meter marble masterpiece, the Slaves, and the gallery that exists to house the most sculpture in the world. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acetaia di Giorgio Modena / Italy
In a fourteenth-century Modena mansion, the Barbieri family produces Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena DOP, including twelve- and twenty-five-year cuvees. The vinegars and accessories sell through the online shop, and tours can be booked at the acetaia. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acqua dell'Elba Marciana Marina, Elba Island, Italy
Acqua dell’Elba makes perfumes, body products and home fragrance inspired by Elba’s marine landscape. Testing in person helps compare its citrus, aromatic and woody interpretations rather than choosing by island story alone. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acqua di Civita Piazza San Donato, Civita di Bagnoregio
Founded by three siblings on Piazza San Donato, this maker produces natural fragrances, soaps, candles and cosmetics inspired by Civita, including lines built on donkey milk and botanical extracts. Its products are made in Italy and sold from a boutique on the village square as well as online. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acqua di Stresa Stresa / Online
Perfumery founded in 2002 in Stresa, on Lake Maggiore in Piedmont, by Giovanni Castelli and Andrea Patrucco, with fragrances built around the lake's flowers - lemon, olive, camellia, azalea, magnolia. store page → · open in the atlas → - Adidas Florence / Online
Herzogenaurach’s three stripes since 1949 — the Stan Smith, the Samba, the Superstar, and a sport-to-street empire second to none in Europe. store page → · open in the atlas → - Agnona Borgosesia / Piedmont / Online
Agnona was founded in 1953 in Borgosesia, in the wool country between Biella and the Alps, by Francesco Ilorini Mo — a fabric man before anything else. store page → · open in the atlas → - Agre Procida / Italy
Agre distills lemon leaf liqueur, limoncello, and orange-ginger liqueur from Procida-grown citrus at its facility on Via Vittorio Emanuele, selling bottles through its own online shop. Its signature Fogliolì liqueur and low-proof Allora spritz aperitif are built around the island's lemons. store page → · open in the atlas → - Agricole Vallone Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Agricole Vallone traces back to Commendatore Vincenzo De Marco's late-1800s wine estate, consolidated in 1934 when a marriage joined the Tenuta Flaminio and Tenuta Iore properties, with Castel Serranova added in the 1960s. The Lecce-based family firm now farms 500 hectares across three Salento estates and bottles sixteen labels, including its long-running Vigna Flaminio rosato. store page → · open in the atlas → - AKU Italy
Trentino bootmakers since 1985 — hand-lasted hiking and trekking boots trusted by alpine professionals and NATO forces alike. store page → · open in the atlas → - Al Covo Venice / Castello
American-Venetian fusion — Diane and Cesare's restaurant, the daily market menu, and the Castello address that bridges two cultures through fish. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alba Optics Milan / Online
Milan cycling-eyewear brand founded in 2017, built around a revived 1980s frame mould; frames are designed and handcrafted in Italy for road, gravel and outdoor sport use. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alba Truffle Fair (Fiera Internazionale del Tartufo Bianco) Alba, Piedmont
Every autumn Alba fills with white truffle — auctions, tastings, and Tuber magnatum at its peak. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alba Truffle Market Alba / Piazza Risorgimento (Piedmont)
The White Truffle Fair — October to December, the auction, the world's most valuable fungus, and the Alba market that defines luxury food. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alberto Fasciani Bologna, Italy
Italian luxury footwear house founded in 1950, headquartered in a workshop in Fermo, Marche, specializing in handcrafted equestrian riding boots and leather footwear using exotic leathers, calfskin and Cordovan. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aldighieri Gioielli Vicenza / Italy
Aldighieri Gioielli has handcrafted gold and gemstone jewellery from its historic workshop under the porticos of Vicenza for more than 35 years, with master craftsman Paolo Aldighieri named a Master Craftsman by the Veneto Region in 2022. The atelier offers custom design, gem cutting, and repair services alongside its in-progress online shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alessandro Dari Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Goldsmith-alchemist of Via San Niccolò — sculptural jewel-architecture in a museum-workshop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alessandro Dell'Acqua Milan, Italy
The Neapolitan colorist behind N°21 — romantic slip dresses and knowing femininity from Milan. store page → · open in the atlas → - Allegri Italy
Italian rainwear house founded by brothers Allegro and Renato Allegri near Vinci, Tuscany, in the late 1950s/early 1960s, expanding via the Empoli firm Finest (1962) before Allegri S.p.A. was formally established in Vinci in 1971. Opened its first Florence boutique on Via Tornabuoni in the 1980s. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alviero Martini 1a Classe Milan / Online
Italian leather goods brand launched in 1991 by designer Alviero Martini, built around his geo map print inspired by an antique map he found in a Moscow bookshop in the mid-1980s; flagship stores in Milan and Rome. store page → · open in the atlas → - Amalo Donne Via argiro 140, bari / Italy
Amalo is a women's fashion boutique on Via Argiro in Bari run by couple Angela and Luciano, stocking curated labels like K-Way, Neirami, Sebago and Polo Ralph Lauren alongside Culti Milano fragrances. The shop posts regular in-store promotions, such as its current 50% summer sale, tied back to its Via Argiro address. store page → · open in the atlas → - Amaranto Perugia / Online
Amaranto is an Umbrian knitwear house, offering cashmere in painterly colors from the Italian knit heartland. store page → · open in the atlas → - Amedei Pontedera / Tuscany / Online
Amedei makes Tuscan bean-to-bar chocolate, including Porcelana and Chuao bars. store page → · open in the atlas → - Andrea Montelpare Fermo, Marche, Italy
Fermo luxury children's footwear — artisanal Italian shoemaking with licensing from Philipp Plein, MSGM, Elie Saab. store page → · open in the atlas → - Angela Caputi Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Florence's resin-jewel colorist since 1975 — bold costume jewelry loved by costume designers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Angela Ciampagna Naples / Online
Angela Ciampagna is Abruzzo's artisan perfume house — slow-macerated scents from Atri, rooted in regional ritual. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Bottega Roticiani Orvieto / Italy
The Antica Bottega Roticiani is a traditional butcher and norcineria on Piazza Sant'Angelo in Orvieto's historic center, offering cured meats, local salumi and typical products. It doubles as a bistrot serving porchetta sandwiches and other street food. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Drogheria Manganelli 1879 Via di Città 71-73, 53100 Siena (SI), Italy / Siena / Italy
Founded 1879 on Piazza del Campo by the Manganelli brothers; still trading on Via di Città with original furnishings. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antica Salumeria Rastelli Parma / Italy
Parma delicatessen trading since 1952 on family recipes passed down through generations. The counter stocks regional cured meats, cheeses and wines representing the city's food traditions. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antiche Cantine Migliaccio Ponza, Lazio, Italy
This historic family winery works terraced vineyards on the island of Ponza. It bottles native island wines such as Biancolella and the Fieno di Ponza reds and whites. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antichi Sapori di Pienza Pienza / Italy
Antichi Sapori di Pienza is the Zazzeri family’s food shop in Pienza’s historic center, selling Pecorino di Pienza, Cinta Senese cured meats, Tuscan wines, olive oil, pasta and traditional sweets sourced with local dairies and farms. Its online shop also carries preserves, sauces, honey, aged cheeses and gift baskets, extending the Val d’Orcia pantry range beyond the physical Pienza shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antico Frantoio Bo Sestri Levante / Italy
This family-run oil mill in Sestri Levante recently opened a new tasting store attached to its historic frantoio, where visitors can sample and buy its extra virgin olive oils, pestos, and preserved vegetables made on-site. The mill sells both in person and through its own English-language online shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antonio Meccariello Naples, Italy
Neapolitan shoemaking’s rising legend — hand-welted Aurélien lasts and bespoke-grade ready-to-wear from Casandrino. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antonioli Milan / Online
Antonioli is a Milan concept store founded in 1987 by Claudio Antonioli, now at Via Paolo Paoli 1 (a former silent-cinema building) since 2003, curating avant-garde and emerging international fashion labels. store page → · open in the atlas → - Apple Store Florence / Online
Apple’s retail temples — glass staircases, Genius Bars, and the full hardware canon from iPhone to Mac in flagship settings. store page → · open in the atlas → - Apposta Italy / Online
Italian online custom shirtmaker with a dedicated one-piece collar program — configure the cloth, they cut the single-piece collar in Italy. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aprosio & Co Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Florence jewelry atelier founded in 1993 by Ornella Aprosio, a former antique-costume restorer, who designs necklaces and earrings from Murano glass micro-beads and Bohemian crystal, made with about thirty artisans at her Via del Moro workshop. store page → · open in the atlas → - AquaFlor Oltrarno, Florence / Online
Florence's frescoed perfume atelier near Santa Croce — house extraits and bespoke commissions. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aquazzura Florence / Online
Aquazzura focuses on Edgardo Osorio's Florence-based party shoemaker, pineapple-heel glamour from Palazzo Corsini. Production is associated with Italy, while the range centers on celebration heels. store page → · open in the atlas → - Arabesque of Naples Naples Fl / Italy
A fine stationer and gift shop on Fifth Avenue South in Naples, Florida, Arabesque offers custom wedding invitations, engraved papers, fountain pens, leather goods and gifts. Now past its twentieth year, it serves customers in-store and through an online stationery and gift storefront. store page → · open in the atlas → - Arcaico Ceramic Siena Siena / Italy
Arcaico Ceramic Siena has hand-painted lead-free ceramics from a shop on Via di Città, just steps from the Piazza del Campo and Siena's Duomo, since 1992. Run by Massimo and Gianni Bracciali, the studio takes custom commissions and ships finished pieces worldwide. store page → · open in the atlas → - Arena Tolentino / Online
Horst Dassler — son of Adidas founder Adi Dassler — launched Arena in 1973 after Mark Spitz's seven golds in Munich, debuting the ultra-light Skinfit fabric at the 1974 European Championships in Vienna. Owned by Japan's Descente since 1990, the brand sells competition suits and training gear through distributors in more than 100 countries. store page → · open in the atlas → - Arlo Haisek Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Roman vintage-designer curation — hand-picked archive pieces from the great houses, hunted for condition and provenance. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aromaticus Via Urbana 134, Monti, Rome
Aromaticus is a plant shop, café, and bistro dedicated to urban gardening and botanical cuisine. store page → · open in the atlas → - Arquiste Naples / Online
New York-based fragrance house founded in 2011 by architect and historic preservationist Carlos Huber, who apprenticed under perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux. Each scent reconstructs a specific historical date, place and moment rather than a generic theme. store page → · open in the atlas → - Artigiano del Guanto Naples / Italy
Artigiano del Guanto traces to a workshop in northern Naples run by Giovanni Ricciardiello, described on the brand's own site as a "master glove maker for 50 years" carrying forward the city's old Neapolitan glove-making families. store page → · open in the atlas → - Artknit Studios Biella, Italy
Direct-to-consumer knitwear from Biella. Transparent pricing, zero inventory waste. Superb merino polo shirts and fine-gauge knits. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aspesi Legnano / Lombardy / Online
Milanese label founded in 1969 by Alberto Aspesi as a shirtmaker; expanded into full menswear and womenswear by the late 1970s and is credited with popularizing the down jacket ('piumino') as everyday city wear in Italy. store page → · open in the atlas → - Atelier Cologne Naples / Online
Niche fragrance house founded in Paris in 2009 by chemist Sylvie Ganter and perfumer Christophe Cervasel, built around the 'Cologne Absolue' concept - high-concentration citrus colognes. Acquired by L'Oreal in 2016. store page → · open in the atlas → - Atelier Dama Quartiere madonnella, bari / Italy
Atelier Dama is Adriana Dama's bespoke sartoria on Via Cardassi in Bari's Madonnella district, where nearly thirty years of tailoring experience go into one-off wedding dresses, evening gowns and restyled garments sold both in-studio and through an online shop. Dama holds the title of Maestra Accademica Senior from the Accademia dei Sartori and was recognized in 2025 with Fondazione Symbola's craftsmanship award. store page → · open in the atlas → - Atelier VM Milano / Brera
Minimalist gold jewellery — the L'Essenziale bracelet, hand-finished in Milan, and the delicate gold that Brera's art crowd wears. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aurélien Milan, Italy
Menswear label founded in 2015 by brothers Joris and Philip, launched with Italian-made driving shoes before expanding into knitwear and polo shirts produced in family-run ateliers across Italy, including a factory near Como. store page → · open in the atlas → - Autè Taormina Taormina / Italy
Aute Taormina sells Sicilian ceramics and jewelry from its shop in Taormina's Piazza San Domenico, open daily from 10am to 7pm, featuring hand-painted Moor's Head sculptures, sea urchin ceramics, and pieces by artists like Stefania Boemi. The shop also ships its ceramics internationally through its online store, with insured shipping on every order. store page → · open in the atlas → - Avino Italy
Artisanal Neapolitan shirtmaker crafting hand-cut shirts with exceptional collar construction and fabric selection from top mills. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azalea Bellagio, Lake Como
Azalea has printed Como silk into scarves, shawls and ties since 1960, working from a shopfront in Bellagio's stepped lanes above the lake. Alongside the silk it carries cashmere, cotton and wool pieces made to its own limited-edition designs and produced locally in nearby Como. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azalea Bellagio Bellagio / Lake Como / Online
Bellagio's lakeside silk boutique — jacquard ties, foulards, and hand-made stoles from Como looms. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Ca' di Mare Localita Setta, Framura
A small farm on the terraced cliffs above Framura growing vines within reach of the sea breeze and pressing them into Ligurian wine sold direct. Visitors can arrange tastings and a 'Wine Experience' by appointment overlooking the coast. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Caparsa Radda In Chianti / Italy
Azienda Agricola Caparsa has farmed organic Sangiovese vineyards in Radda in Chianti since Paolo Cianferoni's father planted them in 1965, and the estate's 17th-century cellar now doubles as its direct-sale wine shop and tasting room. Visitors can buy the Chianti Classico Riserva Caparsino and other estate bottlings on site by reservation. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Casale Marchese Frascati, Lazio, Italy
Seven generations of one family farm more than fifty hectares at Vermicino, bottling Frascati DOC and DOCG whites and pressing extra virgin olive oil. The estate on Via di Vermicino hosts tastings and events among the Castelli Romani hills. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Emanuela Bonomo Pantelleria / Italy
Emanuela Bonomo's organic farm on Pantelleria grows and cures the island's capers, olives, grapes and oregano on volcanic terraces. Its shop sells capers, olive oil, passito, pates, jams and spice from Rekale, with delivery across Italy. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola I Sodi Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
A family farm of roughly 12 hectares around a late-1700s farmhouse whose name refers to the hard, stony soil beneath it, producing Chianti Classico, Riserva and IGT Sangiovese wines. The estate also runs the nearby Le Trappoline agriturismo. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Montefabbrello Schiopparello, Portoferraio, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Near Portoferraio, this farm makes DOC Elba wines including a passito, plus extra-virgin olive oil from four cultivars and pasta milled from ancient grain. The on-site shop keeps morning and afternoon hours, and the property adds five guest rooms and a seasonal restaurant. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Agricola Possa Riomaggiore
Samuele Heydi Bonanini farms reclaimed terraces above Riomaggiore, working the vines by hand and hauling grapes on a monorail to make natural Cinque Terre wines and Sciacchetra. The small estate is known for low-intervention winemaking, including bottles aged under the sea. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azienda Biologica De Sanctis Frascati, Lazio, Italy
Winemakers at Frascati since 1816, the De Sanctis family works organically, bottling Frascati Superiore DOCG under labels such as Abelos and Vino 496. Tastings and vineyard visits are offered at the family cellar. store page → · open in the atlas → - Azzurra Profumi Catania, Sicily
Azzurra Profumi is a Sicilian landscape perfumery, offering Catania scents of citrus groves and Etna air. The range centers on fragrances, Beauty, with production associated with Sicily, Italy. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bajeicò - La Bottega del Pesto Portovenere / Italy
Bajeico, born from the Massa family's half-century-old Portovenere grocery, is an artisanal pesto laboratory on Via Capellini making pesto by hand from Ligurian basil, garlic, pine nuts and cheese. Visitors can taste and buy jars directly from the shop while wandering the town's carruggio. store page → · open in the atlas → - Baladin Milano Milano / Via Mesmer
Baladin’s Milan outpost serves the Piedmont brewery’s craft beer and sells bottles or cans for take-away. Hospitality is the main experience, while packaged beer provides the genuine retail component. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ballantyne Troy, Scotland / Milan
Ballantyne focuses on Scottish cashmere aristocracy gone Italian, intarsia diamonds of Troon golf-royalty memory. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bar Schiavoni Modena / Via Albinelli
Albinelli Market bar — gnocco fritto, mortadella, Lambrusco, and the market counter that Modena's working class has eaten at for generations. store page → · open in the atlas → - Barba Napoli Naples / Online
Neapolitan shirting house since 1964 — hand-passed shoulders and the ease of Neapolitan dress shirts. store page → · open in the atlas → - Barena Venezia Venice / Online
Barena Venezia grew from Venetian workwear and countryside clothing into a relaxed tailoring house, founded in 1993 by Sandro Zara after decades in the textile trade. Soft unlined jackets and fabric-led sportswear remain central to the label. store page → · open in the atlas → - Barna Cashmere Terni, Umbria, Italy
Barna specialises in cashmere knitwear made in Umbria, with sweaters, cardigans and accessories built around yarn quality. The small range rewards checking fibre composition, gauge and finishing rather than shopping by logo. store page → · open in the atlas → - Baruti Naples / Online
Baruti is a Berlin-based niche perfume label by Spyros Drosopoulos, distributed selectively. store page → · open in the atlas → - Base Protection Italy
Founded in 2005 in Civitanova Marche and now based in Barletta, with a second plant added in Tirana, Albania in 2011; produces about 450,000 pairs of safety shoes a year and fits some models with BOA's micro-adjustable dial closures. store page → · open in the atlas → - Basetti Milan
Bassetti has produced Italian household linens since its founding in Milan back in 1830. The brand now operates within the Zucchi Group's home-textile portfolio. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bassi Gioielli Modena / Italy
A Modena goldsmith working since 1974, designing bespoke rings from 3-D renderings with GIA- and IGI-certified diamonds. Clients visit the shop on Via Castellaro to choose settings and stones, with free resizing and lifetime cleaning. store page → · open in the atlas → - Battistoni Rome / Via Condotti / Online
Opened in 1946 at 61A Via Condotti by Guglielmo Battistoni, a former Academy of Fine Arts student turned shirtmaker, this Rome atelier became an artists' gathering place from the 1950s — works by Picasso, Modigliani, Guttuso and Cocteau still hang on its walls — and dressed Marlon Brando and Andy Warhol. store page → · open in the atlas → - Be Nice Cicciano, Naples, Campania, Italy
Menswear trouser maker founded in 2015 in Italy's Campania region, working within the Neapolitan tailoring tradition; specializes in artisanal ready-to-wear trousers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Belvest Piazzola sul Brenta / Veneto / Online
Veneto's hand-finished tailoring manufacture since 1964 — jacket-in-the-box travel blazers included. store page → · open in the atlas → - Benetton Piazza Di Spagna & Immediate Area, Rome / Online
Rome outpost of United Colors of Benetton, the Italian knitwear brand founded in 1965 by the Benetton siblings near Treviso; this large store sits on Piazza di Spagna at the foot of the Spanish Steps. store page → · open in the atlas → - Benheart Via Della Vigna Nuova, Florence / Online
Young Florentine leather label — handmade jackets and sneakers with a heart-transplant founding story. store page → · open in the atlas → - Berengo Studio Murano / Venice
The Murano furnace that put glass in the hands of contemporary artists — since 1989, painters and sculptors from around the world blow their visions with Berengo’s maestri. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bergland Selva Di Val Gardena / Italy
Bergland has carved wooden nativity figures, saints and crucifixes in Val Gardena since Walther and Reiner Kasslatter founded the family workshop in 1981, continuing the valley's woodcarving tradition. Every piece in its online shop is designed in-house and produced exclusively by Val Gardena craftsmen at the company's Roncadizza workshop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bernardi La Villa, Alta Badia, South Tyrol, Italy
This joinery has worked wood in La Villa for more than sixty years, a village the surrounding Val Badia has long relied on for cabinetry and carpentry skills. Two family members still run the workshop today, building bespoke furniture and interiors to order with a mix of traditional joinery and computer-guided machinery. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bershka Florence / Online
Bershka sells fast-moving streetwear, denim and club-ready pieces aimed at younger shoppers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Berwich Fossombrone, Marche, Italy
Berwich is a Marche trouser precision, offering the pleated-and-drawstring legwear of Italian shops everywhere. Production is associated with Italy, while the range centers on trousers, formal. store page → · open in the atlas → - BG Arte Matera / Italy
BG Arte is a workshop of tufa (calcarenite) stone carvers in Matera, making lamps, rose-window airers, sculptures, nativity scenes and souvenirs from blocks of the local stone. It sells through its online shop and from premises in Matera, including Piazza Vittorio Veneto 37. store page → · open in the atlas →