Take a few hours to explore the building’s four floors, filled with crafts, leather goods, nuts and other goodies
Next to Fortaleza Cathedral between the center of the capital of Ceará and the Iracema beach OR Fortaleza Central Market It is an obligatory stop in the capital of Ceará. The five-story building houses more than 550 shops and offers an almost inexhaustible variety of products.
A car park has been created on the first floor, but the other four are full of stalls selling clothes – the traditional “I was in Fortaleza and I remembered you” T-shirts -, woven straw bags, leather sandals, hats, peppers, cane sugar, fabrics, nets and crafts.
Local delicacies are also sold by the batch, mainly cashews and their variants: sweet, liqueur, caramelized, toasted. It also contains coalho cheese, green corn sugar and much more. One of the most traditional shops is the Barbosa (Cazuza)on the ground floor, which also sells cachaça and liqueurs.
There are four restaurants and they also focus on local food. The oldest of them, the Central restaurantit is self-service and offers a variety of typical dishes, such as lamb, fish, green beans with okra and buchada.
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Craftsmanship is another major attraction of Central Market since 1931, the year in which they began to be sold. What attracts the most attention are the clay dolls, which range from icons of the history of the northeast, such as Lampião and Maria Bonita, to pop culture characters such as Yoda, from the Star Wars saga.
Advice for exploring the corridors of Central Market is to start from the third floor, where the movement of people tends to be less, and work downwards.
History of the Central Market of Fortaleza
The first version of the shopping center opened in 1809 to sell meat, fruit and vegetables in a wooden building on Rua Conde D’Eu, where the Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste is located today.
The wooden structure did not last long and was demolished five years later to make way for a building. Already in 1931 the trade in meat, fruit and vegetables was banned and therefore new products, such as handicrafts, began to be sold.
In the 1970s, new stages were built and the market was reopened, still in Rua Conde D’Eu.
The almost 10 thousand square meter building at the current address – Avenida Alberto Nepomuceno – was inaugurated only on January 19, 1998.
The facade of Central Market It has an arch reminiscent of the entrance to a football stadium. Inside the architecture is equally interesting, with ramps connecting the different floors and forming a network of paths in the center of the building. Renovation work will begin in May and is expected to last 12 months.
Service
Fortaleza Central Market
When? From Monday to Friday, from 9:00 to 17:00. On Saturdays, from 9:00 to 17:00. Sunday, from 8:00 to 13:00.
How much? Free Entrance.
Where? Av. Alberto Nepomuceno, 199 – Centro, Fortaleza, Ceará.
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