I sometimes drive my grandmother to the city and accompany her on her shopping and one of the places she tends to visit is the marketplace (usually for fish, meat, and cheese). One thing I've noticed is that there's always a lot of tourists of different nationalities there taking photos. The marketplace is quite pretty and distinct from the outside, whereas the inside is nice but otherwise just your standard marketplace, which makes me wonder why so many tourists take the time to take photos indoors
I was under the impression that marketplaces are commonplace in Europe but is that not the case? I know supermarkets and hypermarkets have surpassed them in popularity, the same applies to Portugal, but are marketplaces that much of a novelty these days?