Mercado Municipal de Pinheiros
Two-story municipal market of forty produce, meat and specialty stalls, one still run by its founding family since nineteen seventy-one.
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This guide to Mercado Municipal de Pinheiros in São Paulo starts at a butcher's counter his family has run since 1971, one of only two stalls still trading from the market's very first day, out of seventy-seven that once opened here. It traces the market back further, to a 1909 land donation meant to give mule traders from the countryside a permanent home on a square called Largo da Batata. From there it follows the trade as the city began cutting an avenue through that original ground in the late 1960s. Listen for the grocer's stall nearby, the market's other surviving original tenant.
This audio guide was created using AI.