{"id":971,"date":"2010-04-19T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=971"},"modified":"2010-04-18T22:36:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T22:36:48","slug":"at-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/at-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

While many Brazilians shop at grocery stores very similar to American grocery stores, markets are also still very popular in Brazil, even in the big cities. There are two types of markets: feiras<\/em> and mercados<\/em>. A feira, <\/em>also called a feira livre,<\/em> is a market that is set up for the day on one or several streets, with food vendors selling fruit, vegetables, fish, meat, and flowers. The vendors typically come into the city from the countryside or outside of the urban area from farms, since there are feiras<\/em> all over the city, though usually each location holds a feira<\/em> only once a week. The street where the feira<\/em> is held is closed to traffic during the hours the market is open, or the stalls are set up on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video of a feira livre<\/em> in S\u00e3o Paulo:<\/p>\n