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Torget in Bergen is more famous under the name The Fish Market, and is one of the major tourist attractions in Bergen. With its location in Vågen in the center of Bergen, it has been a meeting place for the locals for centuries. The Fish Market has history back to the 13th century and today’s location since 1566. Even today it is a place where the locals buy fish and seafood. But you can buy much more than fish here like fruit and vegetables, flowers and souvenirs. Torget is divided into the stalls area and the Food Market. In the permanet building, housing the Food Market and the Tourist information in Bergen, some of the largest vendors have moved in with both their fish and seafood counters and their own seafood or sushi restaurants and even a bakery. Here you will find a huge selection of prawns, lobsters, crabs, scallops, moules and other various shellfish and of course a lot of different types of fresh fish - and dryfish. Some of the vendors can even supply smoked wild salmon and all offer the regular Norwegian smoked salmon. In the stalls you can find more seafood vendors where many of them also offer fresh sandwiches and buns with different seafood and an area to sit down. Here are also fruit and vegetables vendors and souvenir shops. You can also find some food vendors selling other food than seafood. The space in the stalls area is very limited, so you have to qualify by a strict process to get a space here - which also is good for the food quality. The Fish Market is at its most busy during the tourist season in summer, and most of the vendors speak more than five languages.