Mercado Tirso de Molina
Sprawling produce market with pyramid skylights, built up from decades of informal street stalls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mercado Tirso de Molina in Santiago starts under its roof of upside-down pyramids, then goes back to the street sellers who crowded the old tram terminals in La Chimba, across the Mapocho river. You'll hear how a provisional shelter from the mid nineteen seventies stood in for a real building, and why shoppers called the place Vega Chica instead. Best heard standing in the aisles with the produce stalls around you.
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