Vega Central de Santiago
Sprawling riverside produce market of over five hundred stalls, trading since the eighteen nineties.
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This guide to Vega Central de Santiago traces the market back to a lawless riverbank at La Chimba, where farmers had sold straight off their carts since colonial times, growing messier as the crowds along the Mapocho grew. It follows the local trader Agustín Gómez García, who in 1895 pushed to turn that chaos into something built in stone, and the two decades of construction that followed before the market finally opened in 1916. Listen for what little the record actually says about the man behind the idea.
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