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The permanent market extends from Piazza Casa Professa to the bastions of Corso Tukory towards Porta Sant'Agata. The market is famous for the sale of early fruits and vegetables that come from the countryside of Palermo. Ballarò is the oldest of the city's markets,[1] frequented daily by hundreds of people, animated by the so-called abbanniate, that is, by the noisy calls of the vendors who, with their characteristic and colorful local accent, try to attract the interest of passers-by. It appears as a mass of crowded stalls and with the street invaded by wooden boxes containing the goods that are continually shouted, abbanniate, chanted to advertise the good quality and good price of the products.