Markets to visit Bitola

This vast 65 m-long building (Безистен/Bezisten) is one of the city's oldest Ottoman edifices, having probably been built in the late ^15th century. It is a bezistan (from the Persian bazzāzestān, "place of the drapers") where merchants' most precious goods were stored for the night: silks, gold, jewelry, etc. Renovated in Baroque style in the ^19th century, it is now a little dilapidated but houses a number of shops and services. On the south side is the pleasant terrace of Café Vezilka.