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Food Markets: In the Belly of the City Season 1 Episodes

  • 2013-2025
  • 6 Seasons
  • Janson Media
  • Documentary
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Going to the local market when we visit a foreign city is something we all love to do. In Barcelona more people visit La Boqueria food market in one day than all the city's art museums put together. Markets attract us for their colours, liveliness, smells, people, sounds and taste. The great diversity of people and products that can be found in a market gives an idea of richness and stimulates our five senses. Contact with food in a market triggers our taste buds. Through the market we can meet the producers and appreciate the freshly harvested products. We understand what is in season and what the region can offer. Budapest, Vienna, Torino, Lyon and Barcelona all have a bustling central food market. In the Belly of the City explores these markets, their products, their people.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

5 Episodes 2013 - 2013

Episode 1

Torino - Porta Palazzo

52 mins

One of Europe's biggest open-air food market, Turin's Porta Palazzo, is a vibrant core of fresh smells, bright colours, and lovely people. This time, we discover the lush region's ripe cherry trees to taste the city's unforgettable ice cream--the famous cherry gelato--while we get to know exquisite cheeses and mouth-watering recipes in the belly of Torino.

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Episode 2

Budapest - Központi Vásárcsarnok

52 mins

Nestled in an impressive three-levelled building, picturesque Budapest's central indoor market is not only one of the largest but also one of the most elegant food destinations in Europe. With stalls crammed with an abundance of fresh products, alive fish, rich goose liver or big mounds of freshly-ground sweet paprika, the restored neo-Gothic Great Market Hall is one of Hungary's definite go-to destination.

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Episode 3

Vienna - Naschmarkt

52 mins

With more than one hundred food and vintage stalls plus numerous restaurants, the popular Naschmarkt--Vienna's vast 16th-century food market--is a colourful culinary destination. In this vibrant world of sounds, smells, and gastronomic happenings, the visitor can mingle with the urban crowd to explore the various international cuisines, ranging from exotic Vietnamese to Indian, and from local Viennese to Italian.

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Episode 4

Lyon - La Croix Rousse

45 mins

Located on a hill in the city of Lyon, the neighbourhood of La Croix-Rousse (Red Cross), is the town's coolest district. This market gem exhibits an overflowing sufficiency of quality foods and rich local delicacies, such as delicious organic cheeses as well as pure crusty bread, making La Croix-Rousse one of the best itineraries of taste.

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Episode 5

Barcelona - La Boqueria

50 mins

According to many, La Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria, or simply, La Boqueria, is the best public food market in the Ciudad Vieja and a tourist's ultimate destination in Barcelona's La Rambla. Undisputedly, one of the world's most renowned markets, this popular food market which sells some of the freshest fruit, vegetables and seafood in Barcelona is the perfect spot to have a snack, a hearty lunch, or an unforgettable dinner.

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