Market shopping in France
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Wazemmes Food Market
About 1.2km southwest of the centre in Wazemmes, a populaire (working class) neighbourhood that's slowly being gentrified, you'll find Lille's most beloved Wazemmes food market.
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Flower Market
Cours Saleya's western half is filled with its famous flower market, selling bucketfuls of blooms.
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Prado Market
This daily market stretches from the Castellane metro station along av du Prado to the Périer metro station, with a staggering array of clothes, fruit and speciality items. Flower market Friday morning.
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Marché aux Puces de Montreuil
This19th century established, 500-stall marché aux puces (flea market), is particularly known for its second-hand clothing, designer seconds, engravings, jewellery, linen, crockery, old furniture and appliances.
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U Maggiu
The wonderful stalls positioned in front of the cute granite façade are designed to tempt the devil in you. And they do. Especially if you add the rows of lovingly homemade jams displayed on the shelves. And honey. And charcuterie. And liqueurs. You can see the problem.
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Marché Couvert
The city's main covered market is usually just referred to as Les Halles. There's an open-air market on Wednesday and Saturday mornings around the covered market and on place Jean-Jacques Chapou. Nearby, food shops can be found around place des Halles and along rue de la Préfecture.
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Ste-Claire Market
Load up with market-fresh fruit and flowers plus the makings of a slap-up lunch from the boulangeries (bakeries) and charcuteries (delicatessens) at les Halles Ste-Claire, Grenoble's lovely old covered market since 1874. Or simply admire the elegant, glass-fronted facade and fountain.
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Place des Lices Market
The massive place des Lices Market is a jam-packed kaleidoscope of everything from fruit and veg to antique mirrors and slippers. It's truly legendary (as the horrendous traffic coming into town on these days attests!). It is studded with plane trees, cafés and (when the market's not on) pétanque players.
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Fresh Fish Market
The small but enthralling fish market is a daily fixture at the Vieux Port docks. Cours Julien hosts a Wednesday-morning organic fruit and vegetable market and an Aladdin's cave bric-a-brac market every second Sunday of the month (running from 08:00 to 19:00; metro Notre Dame du Mont-Cours Julien).
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Marché aux Puces
Marseille's premier market has to be seen to be believed. You can spend ages perusing the many indoor and outdoor stalls and if you start to get hungry, live chickens are killed to order, although there are less violent alternatives too. African carved animals and Marseille sweaters are among the colourful sights you can enjoy.
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Marché Saint-Michel
The popular and multi-ethnic market is held every Tuesday and Saturday morning alongside the Saint Michel Cathedral. It features stalls selling fresh fruits and vegetables, foodstuffs, and used clothing, as well as second-hand dealers, whose shops are set up around the Place to the south. It is a lively place that should not be missed.
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Marché aux Puces de St-Ouen
This vast flea market, founded in the late 19th century and said to be Europe’s largest, has more than 2500 stalls grouped into a dozen marchés (market areas), each with its own speciality (eg Paul Bert for 17th-century furniture, Malik for clothing, Biron for Asian art). There are miles upon miles of ‘freelance’ stalls; come prepared to spend some time.
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Flea Market
A flea market takes over the cours Saleya on Mondays.
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Food Market
Pack a picnic basket from the 40-plus outlets filling Les Halles' food market.
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