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Grand Bazaar
 The Grand Bazaar (or Covered Bazaar,Turkish : Kapalicarsi ("Covered Bazaar")) in European side of Istanbul is one of the largest covered market in the world with more than 58 streets and 4,000 shops, and has between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily, located in Beyazit, Eminonu. Grand Bazaar
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar (Kapali Carsi, or Covered Market) is Turkey's largest covered market offering excellent shopping: beautiful Turkish carpets, glazed tiles and pottery, copper and brassware, apparel made of leather, cotton and wool, meerschaum pipes, alabaster bookends and ashtrays, and all sorts of other things. Most guidebooks claim that it has 4000 shops. Because of consolidation and replacement of shops by restaurants and other services the number is certainly lower, but you get the idea: it has lots of shops. Not all of them, by the way, are for tourists; locals shop here as |