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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Aug. 13, 2014: A Bronze Market in Basel

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Artistic taste, perhaps, but not very tasty! These kids are admiring a market table of fruits and vegetables...all cast in bronze! We ran into this in the cloister garden of the Basel Munster (cathedral). So far, all I have found in explanation is that in the Middle Ages a food market was held in the cloister...no more info yet.

 

In the meantime, here's one from the daily market in front of Basel's Town Hall, where the market has been going on for 500 years.

 

 

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