The daily market
Spices, olives, Arabic bread and fish.
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Möllan, as people in Malmö call it, is an open market square south of the centre, and it is where you see the real Malmö rather than the postcard one. It was laid out in 1902 to serve the working districts around it, and was the heart of the city's labour and trade union movement — at its centre stands the monument Labour, commemorating industrial workers, and among Malmö's best-known sculptures. The market works every day now, and its stock is a picture of the city: fruit and vegetables at prices far below the supermarkets, spices, olives, Arabic bread and fish — sold by traders of Iraqi, Syrian, Turkish, Somali and Balkan origin. Around the square are restaurants, cafés, halal shops and bakeries. **By day it is an excellent family market**; in the evening its bars fill and it becomes a loud nightlife district. Its prices are among the lowest in Sweden.
Spices, olives, Arabic bread and fish.
Commemorating industrial workers at the square's centre.
Möllevångstorget, Malmö
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