Shopping in Bar
Montenegro’s harbor town of Bar offers a vibrant shopping scene, with a greater variety of trading shops than many other coastal areas. The best selection of clothes, footwear, sports equipment, and food products can be found in stores located in the very center of Bar. Consequently, on both sides of the wide boulevards, you’ll discover shops featuring items from world and European fashion designers. If you’re a fan of Italian designers, you’ll be pleased to know that almost all boutiques in Bar stock pieces similar to those in Rome, Milan, or Bari.
To meet the demands of increasingly choosy buyers, owners of Bar trade shops and boutiques frequently travel to Italy via steamship lines to Bari or Ancona. This ensures their store windows are always filled with the newest Italian clothes, footwear, and gallantry items. Moreover, Bar merchants strive to cater to a wide audience by offering a good selection of modern children’s and men’s clothes, footwear, and gallantry in their extensive assortments.
During the summer period, Bar boutiques are particularly popular due to their large and quality selection of the newest bathing suit models. Beyond boutiques, Bar boasts numerous other selling objects: souvenir shops, jewelry shops, photo shops, commissions, food stores, various hair and cosmetic saloons, and toy shops.
Affordable and Alternative Shopping Options
If buying branded clothing seems like an unnecessary expense, you can visit stands with clothes and footwear located next to Bar’s green market, which is a few hundred meters from the center. Indeed, besides these stands, you might encounter salespeople offering handicraft products, objets d’art, and souvenirs, making this type of shopping in Bar an interesting alternative if you have extra time.
Bar’s Green Market: A Cultural Hub
Bar’s green market is well-stocked with all Mediterranean fruits, vegetables, fish, different kinds of meat, and dairy products. On Saturdays, the market is swarmed with local residents, people from other coastal towns, and foreign and domestic tourists. You can hear fascinating conversations in English, German, Italian, and Albanian among agricultural manufacturers, merchants, and buyers.
For first-time visitors, a real attraction is the saleswomen dressed in traditional Muslim customs, covered with white kerchiefs, wearing pantaloons or long skirts of various colors. This adds a unique cultural flair to the shopping in Bar experience.
The spirit of the Orient, typical for Ulcinj, also characterizes Bar, where you’ll easily find various pastry shops with famous sweet Turkish tidbits, pie shops (burekdzinica), and numerous restaurants serving famous Mediterranean fish specialties.