The Great Market Hall is centrally located and the largest market in the central Budapest area, on the Pest side of the Liberty Bridge. The building is of beautiful neo-Gothic construction with intricate, heavily-decorated roof tiling.
The market is a three-storey structure, supported with slender metal columns. Even today the market is used by the people of the city for daily necessities such as vegetables, meat and fish. It is also a tourist mecca with lots of traditional salami and paprika on sale. The basement holds a supermarket for convenience shopping.
The sights and smells of this market are unforgettable, but it's setting is the cherry on the cake.
1093 Budapest, Vámház körút 1, Hungary
+36 1 217 6067
Google map: bit.ly/ecrYee
Getting There
Address: Fővám tér, Pest end of Liberty Bridge, trams 2, 47, 49
the nearest metro station is at Kálvin tér (M3 blue line)
Opening Hours-Budapest Central Market Hall
Monday: 06.00-17.00, Tuesday-Friday: 06.00-18.00, Saturday: 06.00-15.00, Sunday: closed.
www.passportchop.com/europe/hungary/budapest-great-market-hall-nagycsarnok/
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