Market
Market 23
Jabín 9 6, 77500 Cancún, Q.R.
Gritty neighborhood market of produce stalls, spice vendors, and cheap taco counters, unchanged since the nineteen seventies.
This guide to Market 23 in Cancún starts amid the sights and sounds of its stalls, then traces the market back to 1978, eight years after the city itself sprang up along the beach. It follows why the neighborhood's grid number stuck as the market's name over its official one, honoring a governor most visitors never hear of, and who the place was really built to feed. A newer market across town has since repainted itself into a tourist bazaar, a contrast the guide lingers on.
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