Bolhão Market

This guide to Bolhão Market in Porto traces the hall back to a bubbling stream that gave it its name, through the 1839 wooden stalls to the ambitious 1914 iron-and-granite building overhead, and into the decades of decline that followed, when everyone agreed the market was dying but nobody agreed how to save it. It follows one florist, Maria Teixeira, who kept her stand running rain or no rain through more than fifty of those years. Look up at the steel roof as you listen and think about what once came through it.