Market
Dong Ba Market
Riverside covered market with a colonial bell tower, its stalls weaving poems into conical hats.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Dong Ba Market in Hue follows the non bai tho, or poem hat, a Hue conical hat craft where artisans hide a line of verse or a silhouette of the Perfume River between two layers of palm leaf. It traces the market itself from its early nineteenth-century founding under Emperor Gia Long, through an eighteen eighty-five fire, to the three-story bell tower building where hat makers and silk weavers still work today. Best heard on the market's second floor, near the hat stalls, before the midday crowds arrive.
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