Typology
Market & urban centre
Bangkok
Cities, territories and cultural landscapes
Market & urban centre
Bangkok (Phra Nakhon)
Pak Khlong Talat Flower Market
At the mouth of an old Bangkok moat, a fish market that, through successive royal, political and commercial decisions, became the place where the city finds the flowers for its rites.
Cities, territories and cultural landscapes
Market & urban centre
Bangkok (Samphanthawong)
Sampheng Market (Chinatown)
Born of the relocation in 1782 of the Chinese settled on the site of the Grand Palace, a market lane that became the first nucleus of the Chinese quarter, still active as a wholesale market.