Split shops inside a Roman palace: linen boutiques and silversmiths trade from 1,700-year-old vaults, while the Pazar green market and the fish hall feed the old town daily. Two big malls sit east of the centre — three very different retail days.
The open-air market sprawls along the palace's eastern wall daily from about 06:30 to 14:00. Growers sell Dalmatian lavender sachets, dried figs, Pag sheep cheese and homemade rakija; the covered section runs cheap linen and leather.
Split's 1890 fish hall on Kraj Sv. Marije is famously fly-free thanks to the sulphur spring beneath it. Trading runs roughly 06:30-13:00; take home vacuum-packed salted anchovies, tuna in oil or Dalmatian bottarga.
A Dalmatian olive-oil specialist on Marulićeva inside the palace walls, pouring single-varietal oborno and oblica oils for free tasting alongside fig jam, caper berries, sea salt from Ston and anchovy paste in tubes.
Croatian-made soaps, immortelle creams and lavender oils distilled on the Dalmatian islands, sold in a small palace-lane shop near Narodni trg. Everything is packed light and flat, which makes it the best hand-luggage souvenir in town.
The white-stone pedestrian spine west of the palace is Split's high street: Croatian labels and international chains in restored Austro-Hungarian buildings, running from the Riva up to Trg Gaje Bulata. Shops open 09:00-21:00 on weekdays.
The cravat was invented by Croatian soldiers, and Croata sells the modern silk version in a shop just off Narodni trg. Patterns borrow from Glagolitic script, Diocletian's stonework and Dalmatian knots; scarves and pocket squares too.
The city's largest shopping centre on Josipa Jovića, about 3 km east of the old town, with roughly 150 stores, a cinema and a supermarket. Open 09:00-21:00 Monday to Saturday, shorter hours on Sunday; free covered parking.
Smaller and closer in than Mall of Split, on Put Brodarice near Poljud stadium, with fashion floors, a rooftop terrace café and a Konzum on the ground level. Locals use it as the everyday alternative to the tourist-priced old town.
Split's bean-to-bar chocolatier makes dark bars with Dalmatian additions — dried fig, sage, olive oil, sea salt and prošek wine — plus chilli slabs. The little shop a few steps from Narodni trg wraps bars for travel.
Artist-run gallery and shop on Majstora Jurja inside the palace, selling original prints, hand-painted ceramics and illustrated maps of Split by local makers rather than the imported magnets sold three lanes away.
The narrow lane east of the palace was Split's working-class craft street and still hides picture framers, tailors, a cobbler and small studios between the vine-covered courtyards. Prices drop noticeably once you leave the walls.
A cellar wine shop near Bačvice stocking Dalmatian bottles you rarely see abroad — Plavac Mali from Dingač, Pošip from Korčula, Babić from Primošten — with staff who open something to taste before you commit to a case.