The best fashion and gift stores Northern Mexico

Callejon del Arte is an arts and crafts market located in Barrio Antigo. It offers antiques, paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists, as well as handicrafts from different regions of Mexico. You will probably find some jewellery or second hand objects to bring back in your suitcase... A superb stroll which will allow you, at the same time, to discover the bars and the restaurants which populate the street. Really, we love the family atmosphere that reigns in Mina Street on Sundays!

Saltillo is famous for its colourful striped blankets, called sarapes. Unfortunately, Mexicans today have a strong preference for synthetically colored fabrics, and with little demand, most of Saltillo's traditional sarape-making workshops have closed. But there are still places that teach and sell these typical local products, like this shop, which was established over a century ago! It also offers handicrafts from other regions of the country.

This workshop-boutique, which has been in operation since 1907, is really worth a visit; everything that local cowboys need is made here in a traditional and customised way: leather work boots, saddles, reins, halters, etc. The machines of yesteryear are still in use, and it is easy to observe the master craftsmen at work. Their items, if available locally, are mostly sold across the border in the United States. There are also very nice leather mobile phone cases... To your purses.