Mapusa Municipal Market (also known as Mapusa Market and Mapusa Friday Market) is a traditional market in Mapusa,

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and a major tourist attraction. It was built in 1960, the first planned market in Goa. The market has three blocks with 164 shops, some of which have been sub-divided, so bringing the total to 173. It is open every day, except Sunday; and is particularly popular on Friday mornings.

The trade

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vendors come in from the surrounding villages to sell their locally grown or manufactured wares, such as spices, fruits, jewellery, pottery, chickens, incense and carpets. Many of the stalls in the bazaar are grouped by type of goods, with special areas for straw hats, Goan home-made chouriço and the like. Strings of

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, spiced and marinated pork sausages, seedless

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, or ''amot'' are also traded.

Gallery

File:Crowded Mapusa Friday Market Redo.jpg, The huge crowds File:Cloth on Sale at Mapusa Friday Market Final.jpg, Cloth and other material on sale File:Goa Mapusa market.JPG, Chicken sellers

References

External links

Detailed Map of shops in Mapusa Market
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