La Vucciria market in Palermo

27 May 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  5 minutes

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La Vuccirìa is an ancient, large market or bazaar area and neighborhood, with shops and tables selling products, produce, and foodstuffs located in the ancient quarter of Castellammare of central Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. It consists of numerous pedestrian alleys and small piazzas in a crowded urban setting, is generally bounded to the North by the church and piazza of San Domenico, to the West by Via Roma, Palermo, and to the South by Via Vittorio Emanuele.   read more…

Central Market Atarazanas in Malaga

27 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Bon appétit Reading Time:  6 minutes

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The Atarazanas Central Market is a municipal market in the Spanish city of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. The current building, the work of architect Joaquín de Rucoba, was built between 1876 and 1879 on the site of a Nasrid naval workshop. Only a marble door remains, hence its name: atarazana.   read more…

Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse in Lyon

2 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  8 minutes

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© Benoît Prieur

Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse or La Halle or sometimes the belly of Lyon are covered markets from 1971, in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. This covered market of 13,500 m², with around sixty merchants and restaurants, is one of the emblematic high places of Lyonnais cuisine, dedicated to Lyonnais mothers, and to the famous emblematic Lyonnais chef 3 stars in the Michelin Guide Paul Bocuse (1926-2018).   read more…

Granville Island in Vancouver

7 December 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. Formerly an industrial manufacturing area, it was named after Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville.   read more…

Dong Xuan Center in Berlin

22 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Berlin, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  7 minutes

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The Dong Xuan Center is an Asian wholesale market on Herzbergstrasse in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg in the Lichtenberg district. It was developed from the late 1990s on the former site of Siemens Plania AG, partly using existing industrial and administrative buildings. Expansions and new uses are constantly taking place. The focus is on sales, services and, from 2024, cultural events. The model and namesake of the Berlin Dong Xuan Center is the Dong Xuan Market in Hanoi, which was built in 1889 and is the largest and oldest market in the Vietnamese capital.   read more…

Cours Saleya in Nice

11 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, French Riviera, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  10 minutes

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The main pedestrian route in Old Nice, the Cours Saleya, parallel to the Quai des États-Unis, extends rue Saint-François-de-Paule to the west, from rue Louis-Gassin to Place Charles-Félix.   read more…

Halles de Dijon

25 November 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  4 minutes

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The central halls of Dijon are market halls in cast-iron architecture built from 1873 to 1875 in Dijon, Côte-d’Or, in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France. They have been listed as historic monuments since 1975. The halls of Dijon are surrounded by numerous restaurants and cafés.   read more…

Kuopio Market Hall

18 October 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Architecture, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  4 minutes

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Kuopio Market Hall is an Art Nouveau-style market hall on Kuopio Market Square in the Multimäki district in Kuopio, Finland. The market hall has a sales point for 30 companies. It is open all year round six days a week.   read more…

Market Hall Stuttgart

17 October 2023 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  6 minutes

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The Stuttgart market hall was opened in 1914 in Stuttgart city center (Dorotheenstrasse 4). Today the market hall is a food market in the upper price segment. It offers a total of 6,800 square meters of usable space for service providers and retailers, including 3,500 square meters on the ground floor for sales stalls. In 2010 there were 37 different stalls. The column-free space in the hall is 60 meters long and 25 meters wide. There are several restaurants on Sporerstraße and in the market hall.   read more…

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