Budapest Photo Gallery
Great Market Hall (Nagycsarnok)

The need to introduce market halls dates from the 1860s as the grand city was taking shape. It was driven by the desire that only inspected food should be sold, and plans for the market were brought up and accepted in 1894. The neo-Gothic structure opened in 1897 and remains the city's biggest indoor market with over 300 vendors.

Groceries are available on the ground floor while there are restaurants and non-food items upstairs.

There is no shortage of paprika, which was introduced here during Ottoman times in the 16th century and foie gras.

However, there is an increasing amount of literature that suggests you should come for the architecture, and leave the shopping and dining elsewhere. This is now a tourist market.