Shopping In Guadalajara
Malls dot the metropolitan landscape as well. La Gran Plaza Fashion Mall is a sleek three-story collection of stores and a movie theater multiplex on Avenida Vallarta near the Camino Real Hotel. The largest is Plaza del Sol , at avenidas López Mateos Sur and Mariano Otero southwest of downtown. Local restaurants and outdoor garden areas offer a break from shopping. City buses designated “Plaza del Sol” travel to the mall from Calzada Independencia in the vicinity of the Liberty Market.
Guadalajara also has an amazing number of shoe stores. Calle Esteban Alatorre, northeast of the historic center, is known locally as “shoe street.” Galería del Calzado , on the west side of town at the intersection of avenidas México and Juan Palomar y Arias, is a shoe shopping center covering a square block.