The Market São José

Whenever I travel with Elba, my wife, we try to identify the main parks for our early morning walks and the public markets of the city, for it is there, in that vuco-vuco of people buying and selling, where we feel pulsating with more force the living culture from that location.

Recife, as a center of secular commerce, has left several of these structures in operation, out of the twenty seven markets São José is the oldest and most structured because it has a large handicraft center in it, where you - like every market in the world - must bargain when buying your network or a souvenir for friends. Worth a walk around the market to see the peddlers selling all kinds of hardware.

The Market of São José is one of the twenty-four public markets of Recife, capital of Pernambuco. Located in the district of São José and inaugurated in 1875, it is the oldest public market in Brazil and the first prefabricated iron building in the country, with the same neoclassical structure of the nineteenth century European markets. It was inspired in the public market of Grenelle, in Paris.

Wikipedia

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercado_de_S%C3%A3o_Jos%C3%A9

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