The Tianguis of Mexico City include hundreds more than can be listed here. Street markets have a tradition that goes well back to before the Spanish invasion of Mexico. In fact, nearly all Mexico City Public Markets began as permanent and semi-permanent street markets.
The casual visitor to Mexico City will discover weekly tianguis en ruedas, literally a "street market on wheels." These will close down a few blocks of an ample neighborhood street once a week. The same vendors will set up somewhere else the next day, and move in a predictable cycle from neighborhood to to neighborhood. This happens across Mexico City and across central America as it has for hundreds of years. It's a terrific way to get better food to more people without extracting money to centralized monopoly distributors.
There are markets that have thus operated continuously since before the fall of Tenochtitlan. But here, we've tried to present some of the larger, usually weekend, markets of interest to international visitors. In some cases, we've listed only a central or starting point. Pedestrian by nature, the tianguis needs to be strolled, poked at, and turned over in hand. But each one offers a good look into the nature of Mexico City's people, neighborhoods, and culture. There are also some very good prices on unique items available no where else.
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