The San Tuan Flea Market is said to be the largest in Europe and even the world, with more than 500 shops and more than 2,500 stalls, covering a total area of more than 30,000 square meters.
After getting off the bus, Yang Jing discovered that the market, known as the world's largest flea market, did not look like a market on the surface, but more like a residential area.
In fact, the San Tuan flea market is a general term, this market is composed of more than a dozen markets, such as the Makeley market, which mainly deals in second-hand clothing, accessories, and ethnic goods; The Kanbo market mainly deals in paintings, furniture, and works of art; The Byron market deals mainly in antiques and works of art; Jules Bayes Market mainly deals in small antiques, furniture, printed products; Paul Burt Market mainly deals in antiques, high-quality small antiques; The Seibet Market mainly sells new art, antiques and paintings from the end of the 19th century.
These small markets that make up the Saint-Touen flea market, each market mainly deals in different goods, which will form a brand concentration effect, attract more merchants to join, make the Saint-Touan market more diverse, and in turn attract more tourists to come here, and gradually, it will become the premier flea market in Paris and even in the whole of Europe.
In fact, the Saint-Touen flea market has long been recognized as the "grandfather" of Paris's flea market, and the greater Paris area has dozens of large and small flea markets.
One of the reasons for this situation is that the San Tuan flea market is really large, and the other is that this market does have a very long history.
It is said that as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were some poor people who lived outside the walls of Saint-Tuan who often sold old goods again, and gradually developed a certain scale.
However, because most of the goods sold here are poor people who can't even eat, there are many fleas in this market, and the name "flea market" has spread out, and finally the second-hand goods trading markets in the entire Western world and even many places in China have been named "flea markets".
Later, the walls of Saint-Tuan were torn down, but the market still existed, so many antique and thrift dealers came here to buy goods in wholesale, making the flea market more and more famous.
As the city of Paris began to plan and manage the market in a unified manner, the market gradually became the size it is today.
There are really a lot of people who come to this market every day to Taobao, recreation and play, at least Yang Jing got out of the car, and saw a lot of people coming in and out here, especially the few sharp-eyed blacks not far away, who were not good people at first glance, and Yang Jing subconsciously hugged the backpack hanging on his chest.
In the words of the taxi driver just now, there are more thieves at the flea market in Saint-Touin than there are in the Place de la Concorde, and it can be called a den of thieves in the entire Greater Paris area.
Very careful to be wary of those guys who had nothing to do and a pair of thief eyes were looking around, Yang Jing walked into the market with the flow of people.
Yang Jing entered this area of Santoan, which happened to be the Khambo market, which deals mainly in paintings, furniture and works of art, and the shops here are generally larger, with all kinds of second-hand furniture and even antique furniture, and of course, Yang Jing even saw several small galleries.
For the area dominated by these goods, Yang Jing has no heart to visit.
Whether it's furniture or paintings, it's really hard to find something missing.
The owner of the shop has been operating here for I don't know how many years, and I don't know how many times the things in the store have been fiddled with, and there are secrets that people have already discovered.
So, it's really rare to find a leak on such a bulky item.
Besides, Yang Jing came here mainly to pick up leaks, and he didn't have the heart to go shopping if there was no leakage to pick up, not to mention that there were still a lot of thieves here.
Picking up the pace, Yang Jing soon walked out of the Kanbo Market and came to the adjacent Paul Burt Market.
Paul Burt Market is mainly dealing in antiques and high-quality small antiques, and it is not like a flea market at all, but more like an authentic antique cultural market than the Khambo market that I just walked through.
Most of the shops in the Paul Burt Market are small two- or three-storey buildings, and although they are not as large as those with furniture, they are more elaborately decorated, and the number of visitors to the market is significantly smaller.
Even the thieves who don't look like good people seem to be much less here.
Perhaps the things that are sold in this market are all relatively high-value items, so the security conditions are relatively better.
Yang Jing even saw two policemen on duty at a small intersection.
Also, most of the items sold here are in the unit of 10,000 euros, and if something goes wrong here, I am afraid that it will have a huge impact on the entire market.
Paulbert Market is not as noisy as the Cambo Market just now, it is much quieter here, and many people who are playing or shopping for treasures are not talking loudly, and they seem to be of high quality.
This situation made Yang Jing relax somewhat, and the arms that had been clasped in front of his chest also relaxed, and his head dared to swing left and right with his gaze.
I walked into a few shops casually, and I quickly walked out.
Paul Burt Market is worthy of being a market mainly dealing in antiques and cultural toys, here casually walk into a shop, the price of the goods in it is in 10,000 or even 100,000 euros, Yang Jing thinks that the little money in his pocket can not buy anything good in this kind of shop.
However, what should be visited is still to be visited, Yang Jing stopped and stopped, and after a while, his attention was attracted by a shop full of clocks.
Walking into this shop, I was convinced that this shop was indeed a shop that mainly dealt in all kinds of second-hand clocks.
As soon as he entered this shop, Yang Jing was dazzled by all kinds of clocks.
Yang Jing swears that he has never seen so many clocks in the same place since he was a child.
Mechanical grandfather clocks, mechanical wall clocks, electronic clocks, pocket watches, men's watches, women's watchesYang Jing can't even estimate how many clocks there are in this small shop.
The clocks here are hung and placed very densely, and Yang Jing even maliciously guessed whether the owner of this shop was deliberately scaring people with dense phobia because he placed the clocks like this ps: Bow and thank "Ice Octave" and "Seeing People in the Lights" for their 100 tips.