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The Markets

• Marronniers
• Halle au Blé
• Place Saint Bonnet
• Val d’Auron
• Chancellerie

What can be more quintessentially French than a Berrichon farmer hawking his crottin de Chavignolles cheese, or a stall bursting with freshly gathered mushrooms?

► Tuesday morning - Esplanade Mendès-France (20 vendors)
► Every day except Monday
   Covered market Saint-Bonnet (10 vendors) 7h30-13h, 15h30-19h30
► Wednesday morning - Chancellerie, rue Gustave Eiffel (200 vendors)
► Thursday morning - Place des Marronniers (70 vendors)
► Friday morning - Centre Commercial des Gibjoncs (25 vendors)
► Saturday morning - Halle au Blé, boulevard de Juranville (125 vendors)
► Sunday morning - Halle et place Saint-Bonnet (60 vendors)

Marronniers

Chestnut trees line this square where all the local housewives congregate to share gossip and buy the fixings for next Sunday’s family feast .The stately Saint Etienne Cathedral with its classical Archbishop’s Garden looms across the street.

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Halle au Blé

The entire town turns out for this Saturday market held in the historic 19th century Grain Hall just behind the Palace of Jacques Coeur. Don’t be surprised to spy a juggler on a unicycle making his way through he throng, souvenir of the Printemps de Bourges rock festival that made its debut here in 1976.

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Place Saint Bonnet

A stone’s throw from the « Marais de Bourges » where over a thousand fruit and vegetable plots have been carved out of former marshlands, this Sunday market is an animated event held next to the Saint Bonnet Covered Market, a contemporary of the old Parisian Les Halles.

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Val d’Auron

On the shores of Auron Lake, this is where all the golfers, joggers, and tennis players buy their fresh produce on the way home from a morning workout.

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Chancellerie

The cheapest market in town is also the most cosmopolitan: Asian, African and Indian specialties are all to be found in this colorful melting pot of cultures.

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