Santiago de Chile Money and Shopping

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Santiago has a lot of Malls. The main ones are:

• Mall Plaza Vespucio
• Mall Plaza Oeste
• Mall Portal de La Dehesa
• Mall Parque Arauco
• Mall Alto Las Condes
• Mall Florida Center
• Mall Plaza Norte

In the malls you can find small stores and Falabella, Paris and Ripley, the most famous department stores in Chile.

Alonso de Córdoba Street and Nueva Costanera Avenue are very exclusive areas where you can find high fashion and luxury stores like Louis Vuitton, Hermés or local designers. In this area you find great restaurants and art galleries.

If you prefer buying handcrafts, the ones in the Centro Artesanal Santa Lucia are good and relatively cheap compared with other handcrafts stores. Other handcrafts centes are in Bellavista (though a bit more expensive).

Plaza Nuñoa has some small shops in the plaza where you can buy books from Latin America (Neruda, Allende, Cortazar) and also handcrafts.