El Salvador is a country with a rich culture and tradition. Their culture and traditions are beautifully and artistically reflected in the numerous, unique handicrafts made in El Salvador. The artistic items are exclusive pieces of the indigenous artwork of San Salvador. When a person is visiting El Salvador, purchasing the handicrafts as souvenirs is the best way of making this trip memorable for years to come.
The Mercado de Artesanias is the most famous handicraft market in San Salvador and it has featured in the Lonely Planet Review of ‘Things to do in San Salvador’. This market, located at Zona Rosa, offers a gamut of crafts of San Salvador. Whether it is ceramics from Ilobasco, ceramics and naïf style wood from La Palma or name any variety of rural art and craft of San Salvador, a person will probably find it at the Mercado de Artesanias. The San Salvador traditional wood and straw craftwork items are very famous.
This market was founded in 1976 to showcase the ornate, colorful and exotic craftwork of artisans over the country. It has about 400 semi permanent stalls offering various items to the customers at economical prices. One can find items like purses, pottery, wood and clay items, hammocks, and table cloths in a number of the shops. People who love toys or want to purchase gifts for children, they must buy a Capirucho along with Salvador shield yo-yos and tops. For people who have a liking for dressing, hand embroidered clothes, indigo dresses, leather purses, belts, variety of jewelry accessories and shoes are sure to catch their attention and tempt them. These things can also be found for a higher price at other stores in the town. One can also find amazing things like black pottery, colorful wood articles, purses made of seeds and other materials, and miniatures.
As there are numerous shops offering same articles at competitive prices, it is advised that people see around before buying and also verify the quality of the product.Bargaining is also done in this market and people can easily use their bargaining capabilities to strike best deals.
Wandering through the colorful market is a fun and refreshing experience and people can fill in their empty bags with souvenirs and handmade and local crafts.
Local artistic handicrafts in the bag and joyous memories in the heart is the perfect way of ending your San Salvador trip and heading home back to stressful regular life.
