Barrio Italia: stores with the three B to make gifts music and books for fans and collectors a gift that honors biodiversity a return through the authors market

Se echa de menos ver vitrinas con grandes carteles que anuncien ofertas de Navidad en el Barrio Italia. Las diez cuadras que concentran la mayor cantidad de tiendas y puestos en la avenida del mismo nombre, entre las calles Francisco Bilbao y Caupolicán, lucen como lo harían en cualquier mes del año y no como se espera paea diciembre. Es más: solo el sobrio árbol de Pascua en la entrada del Mercado Condell (Av. Italia 1371) o las guirnaldas que iluminan la Galería La Bota Italia (Av. Italia 1571), hacen un esfuerzo para anunciar que la festividad más importante para el comercio está en pleno desarrollo.

In recent days, economic news has warned that the lack of product stock, due to import transport problems, together with the high liquidity of national pockets, they will make this year no liquidations or large offer.Maybe that explains the environment somewhat soulless that it looks like a Italia two weeks from Christmas, although that does not mean that there is no wide variety of good options to buy gifts, and at more than convenient prices, in the dozens of galleries and spaces thatare distributed by the sector.

It is enough to go around to find a hundred small ventures that propose to celebrate with products made in Chile, or imported and with novel concepts.Many of them are being promoted by the authors market, Fair of Small Entrepreneurs present in the neighborhood and that this year is promoted under the slogans “Give meaning to this Christmas.#Eligepyme "and" It's not expensive.Is handmade ".

At the end of the Italy 1206 gallery, there is a showcase that attracts attention for its voluminous offer: Game of Thrones books, Star Wars and Harry Potter in Pop Up format, that is, when opening them they deploy figures with relief that represent different scenesand places of these stories.When it seems that there are no more products to give fans of these sagas, bookstores like Pop-up-an entrepreneurship that was born in the middle of the pandemic, and that since September of this year has a physical store-give a new air.

But there are not only fans books.There are also practical stuffed editions for Guaguas;Others, special for boys and girls passionate about science, and a hundred options with illustrations, geography, stories, anatomy and other topics.Prices go between $ 13.000 and $ 70.000 (as a reference, the Star Wars book is worth $ 56.300), for a novel book, unique and imported by an SME that opens space in the Santiago scene, although, they confess their drivers, it was not easy to start confinement and with products that are scarce in the market and with very few editions.However, they have already been able to make the leap to the physical store.

From Tuesday to Sunday, from 11.00 to 19.00h.www.Pop-up.CL;They also make sales on the web.

At the exit of Italy 1206, the Al Record tent attracts attention from afar and not only for the music that comes out of its speakers, but also for the vintage tasks that it exhibits in its showcase.Open by the Venezuelan Pedro Rakos two years ago in the neighborhood, during the pandemic he managed to stay afloat selling vinyl records by Instagram and other social networks.

The best thing about its catalog (which can be checked here) is that it is extremely varied) to Reeditions by Michael Jackson, Britney Spears and Dua Lipa."They are all brought from Venezuela," says Nazz Rodríguez, while accommodating a vinyl of Charles Aznavour.For Christmas and catalog renewal they have an offer: two discs from the collection used for $ 15.000.

From Tuesday to Sunday, from 11.00 to 19.00h.

What do an emerging spike of mint piperita ($ 750) and a sophisticated dwarf orchid ($ 17.990)?The two are great options to make a sense with meaning, that takes care of the environment and foster biodiversity.In its Avenida Italia 1292 store, Santa Isabel corner, art cultures has hundreds of interior, exterior, succulent plant options, aromatic herbs and cooking, in addition to planters, substrates and accessories for the garden.

Present in the neighborhood since 2011 and with much of its plant offer cultivated by themselves, they stand out for having very reasonable prices and also a beautiful collection of wooden pots that can become true furniture for the house.In addition, they offer a very good after -sales service, with an open phone every day to solve “emergencies” botanists.

Monday to Sunday, from 11.00h to 20.00h.www.Artecultives.CL, they also sell through the web.

A few steps to the south, at the bottom of the gallery located in Avenida Italia 1333, the Tallersietecolores is a paradise for lovers of Chilean flora, fauna and fungi.This SME, one of the first to settle in the neighborhood - there is twelve years - is driven by the publicist PaulThe huge Chilean biodiversity.

His idea is not only to have for sale pictures, figures, pins, magnets, pins, board games, books and photographs related to the species present in the country;Also, he says, he is interested in generating knowledge and awareness about the importance of environmental care.Both he and her partner, the illustrator Catherine Avello, exhibit her works here next to about twenty artists who develop a unique and beautiful job, who had to pause during the pandemic but who has now turned full of colors and messages around conservation.

There are products from the $ 600, and the variety is such that it is almost impossible to get out of here without a small memory of how rich we are in animals and vegetation.

Open from Tuesday to Friday, from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, from 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m..

Both the Condell market and the La Bota Italia gallery today looks their sheds full of mipymes stalls seeking to conquer Christmas buyers with their products.From craft soaps to coffee from all over the world, going through clothing, accessories, natural beauty products and Chilean gastronomy are part of this exhibition of small businesses that rotate through different entrepreneurships.

Only until this Sunday, for example, the Stand of Ofelia Gourmet, virtual store of gastronomic products will be in the Italian boot - which range from cahuil salt to Machi coffee and paste of Topinambur Papitas, among others - created by two entrepreneurs interested invalue a line of delicatessen one hundred percent Chilean, prepared in regions and with the peasant hands, certification delivered by the agricultural Chile government agency to the entrepreneurships family entrepreneurship users of INDAP.

In your position, products can be purchased from the $ 2.000 to thematic boxes of $ 26.000, which gather a selection of sweet products, for pecking or cooking.

www.Ofeliarmet.CL, available for purchases on the web.

Meanwhile, in the Condell Market, Gifts for Early Childhood are present with OI baby, clothing line and guagua accessories made of organic cotton imported from Peru, produced as a sustainable manner and under the guidelines of fair trade.

Its creator, entrepreneur Adriana Avendaño, works only with women and seeks, among other things, that moms and parents reuse reusable and friendly cloth diapers with the environment.In your stand there are gifts from $ 5.900 onwards (beautiful bibs with different unisex reasons), and, together with the purchase, give a small informative of its collection printed on biodegradable paper, which can be planted on Earth since it comes with different seeds of aromatic herbs in its formulation.

www.Oibebe.CL, with online store available.