This flea market (pulgas are fleas in Portuguese) attracts a wide variety of merchants, buskers, musicians, and shoppers. The variety on offer is huge: junk, good-quality antiques, secondhand clothing, crafts, and whatever else people think of putting out for sale. Open Saturday from 9am to 5pm.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Brazil, 4th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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