The Shengtuan Flea Market covers a large area. It is said that this flea market in Europe and even the world is the largest. It has more than 500 shops and more than 2,500 stalls, with a total area of ​​more than 30,000 square meters.

After getting off the bus, Yang Jing realized that this market, which is known as the world's largest flea market, does not look like a market on the surface, but more like residential areas. Looking around, it is basically all small buildings with two or three floors.

In fact, the Saint Touan Flea Market is a general term. This market is composed of more than a dozen markets. For example, Markley Market mainly deals with second-hand clothing, accessories, and ethnic-style commodities; Kanbo Market mainly deals with paintings, furniture, and art works; Byron Market mainly deals with antiques and art works; Jules Bayes Market mainly deals with small antiques, furniture, and printing products; Paul Bert Market mainly deals with antiques and high-quality small antiques; Sebet Market mainly deals with new art, antiques and paintings in the late 19th century.

These small markets that together form the Santuan flea market, each market mainly operates different products, which will form a brand concentration effect, attract more merchants to join, and make the Santuan market more product varieties more abundant, and in turn will attract more tourists to come here. Gradually, this place has become the leading flea market in Paris and even Europe.

In fact, the Saint Tuan flea market was recognized as the "ancestor" of the flea market in Paris a long time ago. The Greater Paris area has dozens of large and small flea markets. However, when it comes to the flea market in Paris, the first thing tourists think of is the Saint Tuan flea market.

The reason for this is that the Shengtuan 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 early 19th century, some poor people living outside the walls of Shengtuan often sold old goods again and gradually formed a certain scale. However, since most of the people selling goods here were poor people who couldn't even eat enough food, there were many fleas in this market, and the name "flea market" spread out, eventually causing the second-hand commodity trading markets in the entire Western world and even many places in China to be named "flea market".

Later, the city walls of Shengtuan were demolished, but this market still existed, so many antique merchants and thrift merchants came here to buy items wholesale, making this flea market more and more famous.

As the Paris Municipal Government began to carry out unified planning and management of this market, the market gradually formed its current scale.

Every day, when I come to this market, there are really many people who are entertaining and traveling. At least when Yang Jing gets off the car, he sees many people coming in and out here, especially those black people who look sharp and look not good at first glance. Yang Jing subconsciously hugged the backpack hanging on his chest.

To put it in the words of the taxi driver just now, there are more thieves in the Santoon flea market than in the Plaza de Concorde, and they can be called the thief nest in the entire Parisian region.

Be careful to be alert to those guys who are doing nothing and looking around with thief eyes. Yang Jing walked into the market with the crowd.

When Yang Jing entered the area of ​​Shengtuan, he happened to be the Kanbo Market, which mainly operates paintings, furniture and art works. The shops here are generally large in area, with various second-hand furniture and even antique furniture placed inside. Of course, Yang Jing even saw several small galleries.

Yang Jing has no intention of visiting areas that mainly operate these products. Whether it is furniture or paintings, it is really difficult to find a gap in it. The owner of the shop has been operating here for many years, and he has not known how many times he has fiddled with the things in the shop. There is a secret that people have discovered long ago. Therefore, it is really rare to find a gap in such large items.

Besides, Yang Jing came here mainly to find bargains. There are no places to pick up, so he has no intention of visiting, let alone there are still many thieves here.

After speeding up, Yang Jing quickly walked out of the Kanbo market and came to the adjacent Paul Bert Market.

Paul Bert Market mainly deals in antiques and high-quality antiques. Compared to the Kanbo Market that I just visited, this place does not look like a flea market at all, but more like an authentic antique cultural relics market.

Most of the shops in Paul Bert Market are made of two or three floors. Although the area is not as large as those with furniture, the decoration is more refined, and the number of people visiting this market is obviously less. Even those thieves who don’t look like good people seem to be much less here.

Perhaps the things operated in this market are all items of relatively high value, so the public security conditions are relatively better. Yang Jing even saw two policemen on duty at a small intersection.

Yes, most of the items sold here are in units of tens of thousands of euros. If there is any chaos here, it will probably have a huge impact on the entire market.

Paul Bert's market is not as noisy as the Kanbo market just now. It's much quieter here. Many people who are playing or Taobao don't talk loudly, and they seem to have high quality.

This situation made Yang Jing relax a little. His arms, which had been holding in front of his chest, also relaxed, and his head dared to wave left and right with his eyes.

I walked into a few shops and came out quickly.

Paul Bert Market is worthy of being a market that mainly operates antiques and cultural relics. When you walk into a shop here, the prices of goods inside are in tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of euros. Yang Jing thought that the little money in his pocket could not buy anything good in such shops.

However, he still had to go shopping. Yang Jing walked around and stopped. In a short while, his attention was attracted by a shop full of clocks.

After walking into this shop, I was convinced that this shop was indeed a shop that mainly operates various second-hand watches.

As soon as he entered this shop, Yang Jing was fascinated by the various clocks.

Yang Jing dared to swear that he had never seen so many clocks in the same place since he was a child.

Mechanical floor clocks, mechanical wall clocks, electronic clocks, pocket watches, men's watches, women's watches... Yang Jing can't even estimate how many clocks there are in this small shop.

The clocks and watches here are placed in a very dense manner. Yang Jing even maliciously guessed that the reason why the owner of this shop placed clocks like this was deliberately scaring people with intensive phobia...
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