Ecseri Flea Market
Sprawling secondhand bazaar of antiques, Soviet relics and Austro-Hungarian curios traded without price tags.
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This guide to the Ecseri Flea Market in Budapest traces two centuries of a marketplace that began in the early 1800s, when Jewish peddlers sold worn household goods too cheap for a proper shop. It follows the market's repeated pushes to the city's edge, from a square near the old Kerepesi cemetery to a road named for the village of Ecser, before it finally settled on Nagykorosi Road in 1964. Listen for how a vendor reads your coat and your shoes before naming any price at all.
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