Dédalo — Attraction in Lima Metropolitan Area

Dedalo Arte y Artesania, often touted (with some reason) as a "all-inclusive" souvenir mega store is more like a gallery offering a wide variety of arts and crafts, all hand-made by the local artisans and not your usual line-up of "I Love Peru" ("I Love NYC", fill the blank) mugs, t-shirts and Bob Marley posters, more often than not made in China. Let's start from the location. Dedalo Arte y Artesania is situated in the choicest of Barranco parts, in Jirón Sáenz Peña. Suffice is to mention the other buildings located in the immediate vicinity of Dedalo Arte y Artesania: the residence of the Ambassador of Spain, Hotel B, the most expensive (that's not to say the best) hotel in Lima, the only one that belongs to Relais & Châteaux network, another boutique hotel Casa Republica Barranco, the headquarters of the leading group of real estate companies Grupo Octagon, and the apartment of the most famous Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in literature, whose apartment is right around the corner, on Malecón Pazos (that is, when the writer lives in LIma, which is about 6 months a year). Dedalo Arte y Artesania is divided into several shopping areas offering all kinds of hand-made jewelry, traditional Peruvian crafts such as ceramics and textiles, ornaments, household items and home decor, bric-a-brac, figurines, books, toys, dolls, clothing items (shawls and sweaters woven of alpaca or vicuna fur), sculptures, desktop objects, and more traditional souvenirs. The prices vary accordingly. We were really interested in a dog figurine, about 10 inches in size on a wooden hand-carved stand, only to find out it was the work of the famous Peruvian sculptor Karla Novy with a price tag exceeding $600. However, do not get discouraged, there is something for every budget and you are guaranteed to bring home a really authentic part of Peruvian artistic tradition. The very back of the gallery, where the cash register is located, features a sitting area set in a small backyard garden, complete with tables and chairs and kiosk selling beverages and light...

One of the best gift shops I’ve ever been to: a great place to pick up unique upmarket goods by Peruvian designers and craftspeople. A must for discerning shoppers!

I absolutely loved my visit here and ended up getting some unique jewelry. You can easily spend multiple hours looking at all the rooms, so plan accordingly if you love to shop/browse.

The shop includes homewares, clothing, a jewelry room, stationary, toys and kids items, a small selection of foods, and even a courtyard cafe with bonsai trees for sale.

Service is second to none. Associates will take your selections to the cashier while you continue to shop. Beautiful gift wrap is included with all purchases on request.

Some reviews have mentioned that perhaps some of the craft items are cheaper elsewhere. That may be the case, but there are a lot of brands I didn’t see elsewhere and everything is of the highest quality and carefully curated.

Don’t miss this store to check off your gift list...

The place is quite cute itself but… they OBLIGE TO PUT TWO MASKS while the law obliges people where double masks JUST in supermarkets and public transport! We were group of foreign tourists who wanted to buy souvenirs and they didn’t allow us to enter and they didn’t even offer masks at the entrance. So we came next day with double masks (in pursuit of desire to buy some nice presents) and discovered another surprise…

they DO NOT ALLOW TO MAKE PHOTOS inside🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️They might be think that the tourists from another part of the globe come specifically to stole the unique design of their art crafts😅 While the most important museums of the world are opening their art collections to the public online this small craft shop in Barranco doesn’t let ppl make pictures with their cellphones. Silly! The experience was like we were visiting NOT the ART SHOP BUT some stupid bureaucratic government organization or POLICE STATION! WHAT...