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and at least one large super-
market. A little out of town, but
served by many bus routes, is a
large branch of the Factory
clothes discount store.
Right on the Market Square
(Rynek Głόwny) is the Pasaż 13
shopping centre. Converted
from a beautiful old townhouse,
it has 17 designer and boutique
shops, plus a restaurant.
Krakow now has several large
shopping malls further out from
the centre, with more opening
all the time. They include mega
supermarkets, DIY stores and all
the usual services you would
expect elsewhere in Europe.

Dolls in regional costumes sold in the Cloth Hall
whole of the Hala Targowa on Sundays the square
area is taken over by a large becomes an extensive craft
flea and antiques market, and clothes market, where
where visitors can browse an among other things you can
enormous array of furniture, buy famous Harris tweed
crockery and bric-a-brac laid jackets from Scotland and
out by sellers on the ground. woollen coats and Tyrolean
A covered area contains stalls tunics from Austria.
selling old magazines, books
and vintage postcards.
The unique atmosphere Sales
of the plac Nowy (New Market) Seasonal sales are now quite
in Kazimierz was used to good common in a number of larger
effect in the filming of Days and shops but, in terms of the
Nights (Noce i dnie), a Polish film selection of goods on offer
The interior of Massolit Books, located after a well-known novel by and the prices, they are not
in the Old Town Maria Dąbrowska of the same as attractive as those in other
title. The late 19th-century Western European countries.
Markets and Fairs
round butchers stalls, which Goods are no longer reduced
Krakow’s markets are never are located in the centre of because they are imperfect
called bazaars as in other the square, are still in use, and or no longer in fashion, as
Polish towns. Here the term are often surrounded by used to be the case, but
bazaar has a pejorative vegetable and fruit stands. because of promotions, end
connotation. In Krakow locals There is an antiques and collec- of season sales or the arrival
go to the “square” to buy fruit tors’ market on Saturdays and of new collections.
and vegetables, cheese, meat,
fish or other produce from
the stallholders.
The Old Kleparz market is
the nearest to the city centre.
The New Kleparz market sells
not only food but also flowers
and clothes, while every
Tuesday and Friday you will
find stalls selling brooms, clay
pots and wickerware. The
market in Grzegórzecka Street
by the Hala Targowa (Market
Hall) is the biggest and full of
stalls selling meat, fruit and
vegetables. On Sundays, the A flower stall in Market Square