Mos Espa marketplace

The Mos Espa marketplace was a vast shopping area located in the city of Mos Espa, a spaceport on the sun-scorched planet Tatooine. In the final decades of the Galactic Republic, the marketplace was big and busy,Jar Jar's Mistake with many shops and market stalls where various types of fruits, meat and beverages could be bought.Star Wars: Episode I Insider's Guide
The market was divided into several specialized quarters, some of which served the quotidian needs of the local inhabitants, while others housed engines mechanics, droid repairers or even illegal weapons dealers. Many vendors of the Mos Espa market placed cooling units near their products as a way of drawing potential customers from the hot, suffocating steets.Star Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary Among the food shops found on the marketplace were Gragra's gorgmonger booth, Akim's Munch outdoor caféInside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I and Jira's fruits stall.
In the year 32 BBY, the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn walked across the Mos Espa market, along with the Queen Padmé Amidala (in disguise) and a Gungan named Jar Jar Binks. Binks suddenly got hungry, and a market booth covered with gorgs for sale caught his eye. Sebulba, an angry Dug who was eating at a table nearby, started to bully the Gungan as revenge for the latter inadvertently ruining his soup by spitting the gorg out into the bowl. Only the timely intervention of the Human Anakin Skywalker saved Binks from being severely beaten or even killed.
==Appearances==
*Catch That Pit Droid!
*Star Wars Journal: Queen Amidala
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*Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace novelization 
*Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace book-and-record
*Star Wars Manga: The Phantom Menace 1
*Star Wars Journal: Anakin Skywalker
*Jar Jar's Mistake
*Sith Attack
==Sources==
*Star Wars Episode I Who's Who: A Pocket Guide to the Characters of The Phantom Menace 
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*Star Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary
*Star Wars: Episode I Insider's Guide
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==Notes and references==
Category:Markets
Category:Mos Espa locations