When you happen to be in one of them for the first time, the first thing that catches your eye is a great number of people in the central town streets. That river of people passes by small, well arranged shops, picturesque cafés or restaurants. Should you enter some of these boutiques, you will notice that they are exceptionally well supplied with imported, trendy goods of world leading brands of sport or classic clothing, such as Versace, Ferre, Nike or Addidas. They also offer domestic products, clothing of excellent quality and design. 

In coastal towns, these shops are most often located within the old town center, open till late at night, so that your shopping tour may suddenly turn into a night outing. 

The places where you can buy fresh fruits and vegetables, meat or meat products, where, apart from shopping, you can mingle with the crowd among stalls, become surrounded with the shouting sellers, where you can exchange your impressions and stories – these are town markets.

Most of the sellers there are the owners of small neighboring farms and farmsteads, who put  into the stalls their freshly picked products on a daily basis. Bedewed fruits, only just picked off the branches, blueberries from the mountain slopes, fish just taken out of the sea, aromatic cheese and cream – and many other fruits of unspoiled nature are on the stalls of Montenegrin market places.

There are sections of market places of almost every town where lower priced and lower quality goods are sold. By their looks, they remind of the flea markets of all bigger European cities. The best known such market place is located near Podgorica, in the place called Tuzi. One comes there in order to purchase cheap clothing, mainly imported from Turkey and Italy, household appliances of less familiar brand names or general household goods. What makes a special impression is the very atmosphere of this place – it almost get an oriental charm - crowds, dust, unavoidable “ćevapčići” (small grilled meat rolls) and beer. In an open and kind conversation, offering their goods, the traders will disclose to you their life stories, often linked with the recent war. Quite safely, one will be able to satisfy one’s tourist, consumer or literary curiosity.