Crafts markets can be found around Santiago either as permanent installations or weekly events. Las Condes Los Domínicos at Av. Apoquindo 9085 (no phone), open Tuesday through Sunday and holidays from 10:30am to 7pm (some stalls vary in hours), is a permanent shopping area designed to resemble a colonial village; here you'll find everything from hand knit sweaters to lapis lazuli to arts and crafts to live pheasants. It sits next to the (usually closed) San Vicente Ferrer de Los Domínicos Church, built in the 18th century. To get here take a taxi, which will cost $3 to $5 one-way if coming from Providencia.

At Cerro Santa Lucía, on the other side of Alameda, the outdoor market Feria Santa Lucía is hard to miss with its soaring billboards and sprawl of stalls hawking clothing, jewelry, and arts and crafts -- even some antiques and collectibles. Hours vary, but it's generally open Monday through Saturday (sometimes Sun) from 10am to 7pm. In Bellavista on weekends, a crafts fair runs along Calle Pío Nono (akin to Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley, Calif.), where you'll find dozens of booths selling a variety of goods such as jewelry and old records, but it's pretty scrappy and most vendors are do-it-yourselfers with trinkets displayed on fabric laid out on the sidewalk.