Curitiba shops on two levels: the Setor Histórico's Sunday craft fair, antique dealers and the aisles of the Mercado Municipal, and Batel's boutique grid topped by Pátio Batel. Souvenirs here mean erva-mate, pinhão and araucária wood.
Sunday-only street fair filling Largo da Ordem and Rua Trajano Reis with roughly a thousand stalls: araucária-wood carvings, erva-mate gourds (cuias), leather, vinyl and hot pinhão. Runs 09:00–14:00, rain or shine.
Av. Sete de Setembro 1865, open Tue–Sat 07:00–18:00 and Sun to 13:00. Hundreds of boxes selling erva-mate for chimarrão, pinhão in season, Paraná colonial cheeses, cachaça and honey; the upper Mercadoteca is the gourmet deck.
Curitiba's old camelódromo, rehoused in a covered gallery on Praça Rui Barbosa with hundreds of small kiosks: football shirts, Havaianas, phone accessories, hammocks and cheap luggage. Weekdays roughly 09:00–18:00.
The Setor Histórico's antique strip, a couple of blocks uphill from Largo da Ordem: mid-century Brazilian furniture, enamel advertising signs, religious woodcarvings, cameras and records. Most dealers open 10:00–19:00.
Av. do Batel 1868, the city's luxury mall since 2014: international houses alongside Brazilian names like Farm, Osklen and Reserva, plus a rooftop restaurant deck. Open daily 10:00–22:00, Sundays from 12:00.
Rua Comendador Araújo 731, a compact early-1990s mall that curitibanos still prefer for jewellery, Brazilian designers and a glass-roofed food deck. Calmer and quicker to walk than the Batel giants; trading until 22:00.
Batel's open-air boutique grid: independent Brazilian labels, concept stores, jewellers and homeware along Comendador Araújo, with ateliers and interiors shops on the jacaranda-lined Alameda Dom Pedro II. Shops 10:00–19:00, Sat to 14:00.
Rua Brigadeiro Franco 2300, the 1990 mall anchoring the north end of Batel with around 200 stores and a top-floor cinema. Open to 22:00, so it absorbs the evening once the street boutiques have pulled their shutters.
Av. Sete de Setembro 2775, built inside the 1880s railway station: shops wrap around the original brick shed and platforms, with a railway museum tucked among them. Doors 10:00–22:00, food hall opening earlier.
Av. Cândido de Abreu 127, Curitiba's first mall (1983), grafted onto the old Mueller foundry beside the Civic Centre — the brick chimney still stands over the car park. Strong bookshop and stationery floor for gifts.
Curitiba's thrift belt runs the length of Rua Itupava: brechós stacked with vintage denim, 1970s glassware and second-hand designer, interspersed with fabric and upholstery shops. Weekdays 09:00–18:00, Saturday to 13:00.
A publisher-run bookshop and café on Rua Presidente Carlos Cavalcanti in São Francisco, stocking Paraná writers, art and design titles and its own imprint's editions — the most giftable souvenir here that isn't erva-mate.