La Merced Market
Sprawling food market built over a former convent site, with aisles each devoted to one ingredient.
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This guide to La Merced Market in Mexico City follows an annual September tradition: vendors building towering altars of marigolds and candles to Nuestra Señora de la Merced, a saint tied to a religious order that once ransomed captives out of slavery. You'll hear how a Mercedarian monastery, built here in the fifteen nineties, stood on this ground before the land became a produce market in the eighteen sixties. Listen for how the vendors, who sell chiles and cheese for a living, fund the altar entirely out of pocket each year.
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