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Istanbul's Grand Bazaar Experience
medium.com/the-peripatetic-historian/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-shopping-mall-8ebdb3ee48bdYapay zekadan makale özeti
- Market Overview
- Grand Bazaar is world's oldest shopping mall, construction began in 1455
- Contains over 6,000 shops spread across 60 streets
- Emphasizes bestsellers over variety, with five main themes
- Located between Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia
- Shopping Experience
- Crowds packed streets, women dressed in heavy clothing
- Author's shopping limit is 15 minutes
- Book bazaar offers alternative shopping experience
- Rug shops dominate market, with dozens per street
- Rug Merchant Story
- Author photographed famous Time magazine cover rug
- Visited historic fountain inside mosque gate
- Encountered owner in renovated Roman cistern
- Author declined rug purchase but gained valuable photographs
- Restaurant owner recognized author as non-American