A special exhibit gives the history of the site, which was an open-air marketplace from 1745 to 1956.

A souq is an open-air marketplace.

Today, the sidewalk vendors are to be forced off the street and to an open-air marketplace.

The upper level of Eastland was originally an open-air marketplace.

By the end of the 11th century, an open-air marketplace was set up on a dried-up marsh near the fort that was surrounded by sandbanks.

About a mile away, in West Jerusalem, the open-air marketplace of Mehane Yehuda was nearly as impassable.

The Strip District is an open-air marketplace by day and a clubbing destination by night.

Today, the Guiliani administration is supposed to begin forcing all sidewalk vendors off 125th Street and moving many of them to an open-air marketplace.

In the 19th century it was inhabited primarily by Jews, who converted the street into a large open-air marketplace.

(A souq, by contrast, is an open-air marketplace or commercial quarter.)