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Sandals of Greece

7 stores · curated ORBIS register

Kolonaki

Athens fashion concept store launched online in 2013, showcasing Greek designer labels — Zeus+Dione, Ancient Greek Sandals, Ilias Lalaounis — alongside independent Greek designers without their own ateliers; opened a Mykonos boutique in 2017 and its Athens flagship in 2019.

Best for Contemporary Greek designer fashion

⚒ Concept StoresORBIS register

Melissinos Art

Worth a Detour

Normanou 16, Athens

The Poet Sandal Maker — third-generation artisan making leather sandals for Jackie O, John Lennon, and Sophia Loren. Still hand-making them today.

Best for Third-generation artisan making leather sandals for Jackie O, John Lennon

⚒ Shoemakers & Bootmakers · GreeceORBIS register

near Acropolis, Athens

The Leather Sandals is a workshop run by sandalmaker Argiris Vlachos, who hand-crafts sandals, bags, wallets and belts at his shop near the Acropolis in Thisio, Athens, with a second location in Fira, Santorini. Visitors can watch him make the pieces on site.

Best for Handmade leather sandals and bags

Gazi, Heraklion

A leather workshop in Gazi on the western edge of Heraklion making stivania, the tall traditional Cretan boots, along with belts, bags and sandals. The shop also stocks leather dyes and conditioning creams for maintaining the boots.

Best for Traditional Cretan stivania boots and leather goods

⚒ Leather & Bag Makers · Gazi / Heraklion / CreteORBIS register

Paros

Atelier1935 traces its start to Aikaterini Korpi Zissi, a seamstress who began hand-making leather sandals in 1935 in Athens, sourcing quality leather from a Cretan supplier in Monastiraki. The workshop now sells its handmade sandals, made from calfskin leather, from Paros with worldwide shipping.

Best for Handmade greek leather sandals

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