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It is a great experience to shop at Istanbul markets. If you are visiting the city for the first time, it is habitual for most people to shop around the great shopping malls for the exclusive products of the place. For more than 1500 years Istanbul has offered wonderful shopping experience to lot of tourists.

Istanbul is famous for carpets and hand-made rugs, antique jewelry of silver and stones, footwear, clothing, sweets, spices and much more. Of late pirated DVD’s is being sold enormously in the markets of Istanbul.

Grand Bazaar:
At Istanbul you will be overwhelmed by the array of shopping centers at Grand Bazaar which is located in Beyazit. This complex also known as Kapali Carsi is famous for its location, history and architecture. You can imagine its magnificence if each day it is visited by around 3 million tourists. The shopkeepers are grouped in accordance with the product they sell. Shops at Grand Bazaar sell antiquities, ceramics, leather items, carpets, copper and ranges of jewelry.

Capacity Shopping Mall:
Situated at Bakirkoy, center of Istanbul can be reached by train or by road. Often this shopping complex is very crowded owing to its location. It houses number of shops which sell all products ranging from dress to cosmetics, footwear to ethnic wear, electronic and electrical goods, apparels and jewelry. You can come across all leading national and international brands sold in one roof in this complex.

Kanyon Shopping Mall:
It houses 4 floors for shopping alone and adds another 22 floors for residential purpose. It contains 160 shops and sells all ranges of products including brands of Adidas, Gant, Escade Sport, Harvey Nichols, Troy, Apple Premium Reseller, Mango, Nine West, Pilgrim, Sony, Swarovski, Steve Madden and more.

Hayatpark Shopping Center:
Located in Gunesli district of Istanbul, Hayatpark mall is an eight storey building having an open air cinema theatre on its top floor. You can have comfortable shopping experience with three level parking facilities. It houses 65 shops, and five cinema theaters. A water clock fixed on the center of the mall in a swimming pool grabs the attention of the tourists. First floor of the complex is dedicated for food products alone.

Address Istanbul:
A specially designed shopping center which sells home décor products can be found at Address Istanbul. It has the pride of Turkey’s first home decoration shopping store. It houses many local and foreign brands of house products and its accessories. It sells the most luxurious and trendy products selected from various parts of the world. You can hit upon rarest collection of designer products at this shop.

Istinye Park:
The first IMAX Theater in Turkey is built at Istinye Park. It is the hub of more than 300 shops, cafes and restaurants. The Park sells top brands of local and international products of apparels. It looks very much like an urban environment situated amidst the residential area. Istinye Park has an open air lifestyle center which sells the world’s most exclusive items.

Some people are in the habit of buying anything they see at the new place. Instead make your list and find out what items or things is the town or city famous for and have credit in buying only those things.