Market
Dong xuan market
Chợ Đồng Xuân, 23 P. Cầu Đông, Phố cổ Hà Nội, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội 100000
Covered market of iron-domed halls rebuilt after a nineteen ninety-four fire, site of fierce nineteen forty-seven fighting.
This guide to Dong Xuan Market in Hanoi opens on February 14, 1947, when Vietnamese fighters dug into these stalls to hold off French troops in the opening months of the independence war. It traces the market back to its 1889 origins as a French project forcing traders into one iron-domed hall, and follows it forward through a devastating 1994 fire that destroyed vendors' stock overnight. Look for the bronze relief near the entrance that still commemorates that winter of resistance.
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