11 Best Places to Shop in Baixa, Lisbon

This cute arts-and-crafts store sells traditional and contemporary Portuguese products like handcrafted ceramics and colorful homewares, beautifully presented in a vintage-chic setting.

Lisbon's oldest hat shop also boasts one of its most elaborate vintage interiors—all wood paneling and painted-glass signs. Whether it's a Panama, a traditional golfing hat, or the wide-brimmed Portuguese style worn by modernist poet Fernando Pessoa, you can find it here; they also stock many elegant walking sticks and umbrellas.

This respected wine merchant has been in business for almost a century, and the knowledgeable English-speaking staff will let you know everything about the vintage you've selected. It's known for its selection of Portuguese spirits and fortified wines, as well as foreign whiskies. Bottles are stacked from floor to ceiling and are packed in glass vitrines like museum displays.

One of the city's oldest goldsmiths first opened its doors in 1870 and remains famous for its characteristic Portuguese gold and silver filigree work.

You won't find knitwear in Lisbon of a better quality than at Achega, one of the city's best-loved retailers. The family-owned company—founded in 1957—still designs its own classic lambswool and Merino pieces. There's another branch nearby at  Rua dos Fanqueiros 190.

Herbal remedies have always been popular in Portugal, and since 1950 Ervanária Rosil has built up a thriving business with its own-brand tisanes for everything from coughs to ailments of the stomach, kidneys, or other vital organs, with white-coated staff happy to offer advice and recommendations. Other products stocked range from aloe vera soap to potions made from pau de Cabinda (from Angola) offering "sexual power."

This enticing shop dating back to 1860 stocks cheeses, preserves, vintage port, and other fine Portuguese products.

If you aren't including a visit to the mid-Atlantic Azores on your trip to Portugal, this well-stocked store is the best place to sample some of the islands' top products, including creamy cheeses made with milk from cows that only ever eat grass. Other tasty items include the traditional spicy sausages, ultra-sweet pastries and liqueurs, and green and black teas from Europe's only plantation.

Prepare to be completely engaged by the eclectic mix of vintage clothes, needlepoint purses, and boxes of costume jewelry. There's also a retro-chic café and cocktail bar (with vegan treats).

This flagship department store has seven floors of household goods, but the range of most interest to foreign visitors is on the first: ceramics from Vista Alegre, crystal from Atlantis, and flatware from Cutipol and other cutlery manufacturers from northern Portugal, one of Europe's few remaining industrial clusters in the sector.