A Visit To Brunnenmarkt

This morning, I went to Brunnenmarkt in Vienna’s 16th district for a little baklava shopping. The market is one of Europe’s longest street markets, and is a fantastic place for both shopping and people watching.

The area around the market is home to a large number of Turkish people as well as Croatians and Serbs who come to shop and socialize in the many little cafes lining the streets. It’s even livelier on Saturdays when everyone comes out to mingle and haggle, giving the whole market the feel of a bazaar. There’s everything from produce, cheese, dried fruit and nuts, to meat, fish, cheap clothes, shoes, and household goods.

It’s a truly multicultural experience as old Turkish men with big mustaches disappear into tiny cafes, Pakistani vendors sell cheap jeans and Croatian soccer jerseys, women in headscarves emerge from bakeries with big loaves of freshly baked flatbread, and produce vendors compete with each other for the next customer.