Picturesque grocery shops and other typical food and wine shops across Italy

One of the things I like to photograph in Italy – besides lonely bikes, asymmetric windows and doorknobs – are beautiful fruit shops and delis selling typical, local food products. Not only are the food products usually displayed in a beautiful way, but the names of the shops are often picturesque and creative too.

Some words have a regional origin, such as Cilenterie (a shop selling typical food products from Cilento), Norcineria (a shop selling pork meat products, originally from the town of Norcia in Umbria), while others refer to the type of products or the way they are being sold: Salumeria (a shop selling mainly cold cuts), Prosciutteria (a shop selling different types of ham), Pizzicheria (a shop selling small amounts of cold cuts, cheeses and other food products), Fiaschetteria, Enoteca (both words refer to retail shops selling wine and offering wine tastings), Bottega (artisan food shop, usually with a workshop where food products are being prepared) and many more.

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Photo credits: all photos © Slow Italy, except (from top to bottom): Pizzicheria Siena by Michelle Lee; Bottega del Pane by Salva Barbera; Tropea by fabriziosinopoli; Cefalù by Muriel M. Photography; Fiaschetteria by Aldo Cavini Benedetti; Montepulciano shop by Santi; Salumeria Verona © violinconcertono3.