Women's Market
Sprawling open-air produce market of fruit, spices and bargains, trading since the late nineteenth century.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Zhenski Pazar, the Women's Market in Sofia, follows Milka Ilieva, a Jewish girl who came here on Fridays before the Second World War, trailing a mother who loved to bargain. It touches the market's shifting names, from its communist-era title to the Ottoman-era legend behind the one it carries now, and the village farmers who have traded here since the eighteen-seventies. Best heard beside a fruit stall, with the sellers calling out their prices.
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