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South America · Colombia · Bogotá
Before the Bouquet: Bogotá’s Flower Trade at Paloquemao
Each morning, flower sellers raise broad plastic covers over a parking area outside Mercado de Paloquemao. They trade there until early afternoon, when the stalls come down and the ground returns to cars.
South America · Argentina
When Lunch Takes the Counter at San Telmo Market
At Mercado de San Telmo, daylight falls through glass above iron arches and Carrara-marble floors. Fruit and vegetable stalls, butchers, bread sellers and lunch counters work under the same nineteenth-century roof; by midday, the open grill becomes one of the hall’s clearest signs of the day changing.
South America · Chile
From the port to Cerro Cordillera, one steep stair at a time
Calle Serrano begins in the working grain of Barrio Puerto. A few minutes uphill, the tiled Escalera Cienfuegos cuts beside Ascensor Cordillera, then releases walkers into the residential streets of Cerro Cordillera.