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Dive into Mexico's Culture: The Ultimate Guide to Traditional Markets
Beyond Souvenirs: Unveiling the Secrets of Mexico's Vibrant Markets
Traditional supply markets in Mexico are lively and vibrant spaces that offer a unique shopping experience. These markets date back to pre-Hispanic times and have played an important role in Mexican culture and economy.
What is the origin and history of supply markets? Since ancient times, commerce has been a fundamental part of humanity. In Latin America, the food markets, supply centers or traditional markets are characterized by preserving their own style, many outside of modernity, the stalls or stores selling spices, fruits and vegetables, meats, bakeries make up one of the most deeply rooted traditions of many. Latin American countries. When walking through the halls of a traditional market, the taste, smell and color that make up all the "stalls" is unique. Aside from modernity, the traditional foods of each town, such as tacos, fritangas and snacks, provide a very interesting nuance for all tourists. Fishmongers, chicken shops, butcher shops, creameries, bakeries, groceries, traditional inns and an endless number of things to enjoy, without missing the craft centers that describe the essence of a town. A market also represents the culture of a country, and a trading center par excellence for its inhabitants. Latin American markets have a unique color that will captivate you.
Supply markets in Mexico, tradition that never die
Products sold to this day are of the highest quality and many people consider these foods more organic than those distributed by large self-service chains (Photos Discovery Chepe).
what is the origin of all this?
As far as Latin America is concerned, everything arises with exchange or barter, which was the most traditional way of obtaining products and services, people met in specific places, and this is how a totally cultural exchange was born, also called -Tianguis del Nahuatl tianquiz (tli). This activity had the characteristic of being semi-fixed, until finally and in modern times, a single place was allocated, what we know today as -The Market-. Part of this transformation was also inherited by the European colonizers who already made bazaars to market their products.
Therefore, the heritage of the tianguis or markets today is a mix of commercial traditions of pre-Hispanic peoples from Mesoamerica and Europe.
In many small towns especially, the market is the heart of the economy of that place, different products are exchanged and it makes the economy flow. It generates jobs and hundreds of products and services are marketed. The supply markets, a tradition. We invite you to get to know a typical market, it will be an enriching experience, you will get a good impression of what our ancestors did to market their products.
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