The Albert Cuyp Market is a street market

Street market

A street market is an outdoor market such as traditionally held in a market square or in a market town, and often held only on particular days of the week...

 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, The Netherlands, on the Albert Cuypstraat between Ferdinand Bolstraat

Ferdinand Bolstraat

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 and Van Woustraat, in the De Pijp

De Pijp

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 area of the Oud-Zuid

Amsterdam Oud-Zuid

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 district of the city. The street and market are named for Albert Cuyp, a 17th century painter.

The market began as an ad hoc collection of street trader

Trader

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s and pushcart

Pushcart

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s. By the beginning of the 20th century, this had become so chaotic that in 1905, the city government decided to set up a market, at first only held on Saturday evenings. In 1912, the market became a daytime market open six days a week. Originally the street was accessible while the market was taking place, but for years now the street has been completely closed off to traffic

Traffic

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 during market hours.

The product selection at the market varies from the traditional range of vegetables, fruit

Fruit

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 and fish

Fish

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 to clothing

Clothing

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 and even camera

Camera

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s. There are many products sold that are of interest to the city's residents of Surinamese, Antillean, Turkish

Turkish people

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, and Moroccan

Morocco

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 origin, giving the market and neighbourhood a strong multicultural feel.

The market is the busiest in all of the Netherlands and it is allegedly the largest daytime market in Europe

Europe

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. It is also an important tourist attraction

Tourist attraction

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. The famous Dutch Stroopwafels

Stroopwafel

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 are prepared fresh here.

Also popular are the many ethnic restaurant

Restaurant

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s and bar

Bar

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s that are found "behind" the market stalls. This is generally an area where good food and drinks can be found at a great value.