Friday, August 7, 2015

Essaouira Market : A Popular market with a solidarity and collaboration between traders


The rich city of Essaouira, especially among the antique walls, multi-functional markets as a yarn market, and the market is made up of a collection of small shops where the herbs and spices are sold, and the grain market, who knows when the public as "Rahba," and market "Joutiah" and is a for a small yard for the sale of the materials used by public auction.


Then the "new market" in the city center, which is one of the historic landmarks of Essaouira, has four doors, featuring small shops connected to each other, runs along the interfaces Alzarktoni Street, where vendors are specialized to meet, including Specialists in the sale of men's clothing, and specialists in the sale of children's clothes and others in the sale of women's clothing, and other competent in the sale of perfumes and sewing kits. This old market knows, energetic movement in the morning and evening on a permanent basis, is a major tourist corridor to the various alleys and streets in the Old City.

The commercial traffic in this market was very simple and normal until the end of the nineties of the last century, with barely enough income trading boom market traders to pay duties lease and electricity bills, let alone the daily requirements of the Living. And it had relations with it, which traders gathered among themselves, as if they were a very intimate members of one family, were permanent cooperation and synergy and solidarity among themselves. And tells a veteran traders in this market, traders were meeting every Friday alternately when one of them after the prayer to eat couscous with milk, and break their fast in Ramadan once a week when Secretary of merchants where they discuss their problems and demands.

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