Dong Xuan market

Being the biggest market and locating in the downtown and, in the old quarter of Hanoi, Đồng Xuân market is a crowded and bustling exchanging, tracsaction, business place of the capital.

It was built in 1889, in the basis of combination and removal of two markets, Cầu Đông and Bạch Mã on the shore of Tô river. It was positioned in area of Đồng Xuân ward with 5 vault-like roofs, steel frames; each frame is 52m long, 19m high supplying area for hundreds of goods.

There are numerous kinds of goods and products selling in the market. The crowded and dense situation of Đồng Xuân market was highly praised in many old folk song of Hanoi.

Now, Đồng Xuân is rebuilt in large scale with three wide floors, 9000m2 each. There are totally 2.224 stalls and 70 stores around the market, trading 24 sectors. An escalator is equipped to customer’s travel and goods transportation.

The frontage of the market faces Đồng Xuân street. Architecture of five former frames are retained. Three other sides are Hàng Khoai, Nguyễn Thiện Thuật, Cầu Đông. The present Đông Xuân market includes Bắc Qua market and becomes the largest whole sale market of North Vietnam.

Đồng Xuân market is also a historical place where there was a combat of soldiers of “Quyết tử quân” (Deciding to die) against the French attack to the heroic zone I, in February 1947.

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