District Market Square La Concordia
Restored nineteen-thirties covered market pairing fresh-food stalls with an underground contemporary art gallery.
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This guide to District Market Square La Concordia in Bogota centers on Jose Liborio La-Rotta, a grocer who kept raising his stall's shutter each morning for sixteen unpaid years after the city agency running the market walked away. It traces the plaza's slow decline into leaking roofs and failing wiring, and the vendors who called it pitiful by the two-thousands. The market itself began almost a century earlier, when a churchyard market, a street stall, and a square called La Pola merged into one.
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