Markets

Farmers' markets, flea markets and weekly stalls, with the days and hours that make them worth the trip.

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Vienna's municipal markets — Vienna's Marktamt runs a set of permanent retail markets that open at six in the morning and close when the offices are still full, plus a…
Barcelona's municipal market halls — Barcelona runs 39 food markets as public facilities, from the iron halls of the 1840s to concrete boxes built for postwar housing estates,…
Lisbon's municipal market halls — Lisbon's covered markets were built between 1892 and 1965 as civic infrastructure, one hall per parish, and they are now splitting into two…
Paris covered market halls built in the 1800s — Nineteenth-century Paris solved the problem of shopping in mud twice over: iron-framed food halls dropped into the middle of neighbourhoods…