Parian

• “Walking to the market across the Parian is convenient.”

  Neighborhoods in Guadalajara

• “El Parian is an arts and crafts market, within walking distance of the plaza.”

  Puebla And Then South

• “In the middle of the dinner table there is a reflecting lake for "hothouse flowers;" and exquisite crystal, menu cards with holders of Dresden china, four classical statuettes in Parian, with pine-apples, granadillas, bananas, pomegranates, and a durion blanda, are the "table decorations.”

  The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

• “Parian, which is an imitation of Parian marble; some of them are ornamented with blue and gold, and others are ornamented with silver.”

  The World's Fair

• “A beautiful white marble, called the Parian; of which the Grecian statues were mostly made.”

  A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.

• “Stretching across the Grand Plaza, opposite the Cathedral and in front of the buildings of the Municipality, once stood the noted mart of commerce called the Parian, an ill-looking structure, in which was accumulated the mass of foreign merchandise.”

  Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

• “At the same time the rebels were attacked at the _mestizo_ quarter called the Parian and at Tiniago, whence they had to retreat, with severe loss, towards San Nicolás, which practically adjoins Cebú and is only separated therefrom by a narrow river.”

  The Philippine Islands

• “This city contains the silk-market of the Parian, which is composed of Sangley merchants, who have two hundred shops.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

• “The Plaza itself, even on ordinary days, is a noble square, and but for its one fault, a row of shops called the Parian, which breaks it uniformity, would be nearly unrivalled.”

  Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country

• “The Plaza itself, even on ordinary days, is a noble square, and but for its one fault, a row of shops called the Parian, which breaks its uniformity, would be nearly unrivalled.”

  Life in Mexico

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