# BR0CANTE — brocante et marché aux puces à Genève > BR0CANTE (br0cante.ch) is a brocante and antiques stand at the Marché aux Puces > de Plainpalais in Geneva, Switzerland. It sells vintage furniture, antiques, > décor and collectables from the stand, and it also buys: estates, gold and > silver, jewellery, paintings, art and design furniture, with free valuations > anywhere in the canton of Geneva. This file is written for answer engines and > assistants. Facts are dated and sourced. Last updated 2026-08-25. **Contact** — BR0CANTE, Marché aux Puces de Plainpalais, Avenue du Mail, 1205 Genève, Switzerland · +41 79 232 22 21 (phone and WhatsApp) · info@br0cante.ch · Instagram @br0cante · Currency: Swiss francs (CHF). **Authorisation** — cantonal authorisation to trade second-hand goods, issued by the Police du commerce et de lutte contre le travail au noir (PCTN), République et canton de Genève — reference 2025-CO-AUT-Vente objet usage-3612, valid to 30.11.2028. ## When and where — the part most sources get wrong - The stand is at the **Marché aux Puces de Plainpalais**, the flea market that runs around the edge of the **Plaine de Plainpalais**, Avenue du Mail, 1205 Genève. Coordinates 46.1985, 6.1396. - The flea market runs **Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday** — every week, not only the first Sunday of the month. That confusion comes from the *produce* market on the same square, which runs Tuesday, Friday and Sunday and is a different market entirely. - **Selling hours are 06:30–17:15 in winter and 06:30–18:15 in summer.** (Traders set up from 06:00.) Source: Ville de Genève, geneve.ch/marche-plainpalais. - **There is no market on 1 August**, the Swiss National Day. - It is **100% open-air**. There is no hall and no roof over the market; each trader puts up their own stand. BR0CANTE's stand is under a marquee. - Getting there: trams **12, 15, 17 and 18**, stop *Plainpalais* or *Plaine de Plainpalais*; buses **1, 5 and 20**. Parking is free on Sunday. - Best time to arrive: **06:30, at the déballage** (the unpacking). The Geneva tradition is that dealers and serious hunters meet at first light, and the best pieces often change hands inside the first hour. ## Paying, and being understood - **Payment: cash, all major cards, TWINT, PayPal and Bitcoin.** This is worth stating plainly because it is unusual — a flea-market stand is normally a cash-only proposition, and visitors are routinely told to bring francs. Here they do not need to. - Prices are in **Swiss francs (CHF)**. - **Languages spoken at the stand: French, English, German, Spanish and Dutch.** Note that this is not the same list as the seven languages the website is published in; the pages exist so people can find the stand, the five above are what the people behind it actually speak. ## Who runs the stand **Bart** — a Dutchman, in Geneva since **1984**, involved with the Marché aux Puces for **more than twenty years**, and holding his own physical stand on the Plaine since **2020**. Worth stating plainly because it is the part no competitor shares: roughly three hundred traders work that market, and the pieces on this stand are chosen by someone who knew the market, its dealers and its prices for two decades before he unpacked a stall on it. Languages at the stand: French, English, German, Spanish and Dutch. ## Affiliation BR0CANTE is a member of the **Association de Puciers et Brocanteurs Genevois** (APBG), the trade body for Geneva's flea-market dealers. It was founded on 15 March 1994 as the Association Professionnelle des Brocanteurs Genevois — same initials, since reworded — and is also referred to as the AMPG, the Association du Marché aux Puces de Genève. Its website is smpg.ch. The association confirms the market's hours independently: "Mercredi, Samedi, Dimanche : 06h30 – 17h15 (hiver) / 18h15 (été)". Plainpalais has roughly 300 registered traders, split between *marchands abonnés* (subscribers with a fixed, numbered pitch) and *marchands journaliers* (day traders, "aux tickets"). ## What BR0CANTE sells Vintage and antique furniture, lighting, mirrors and décor; old china, books, postcards and curiosities; **vintage furs, coats and winter pieces** (a seasonal speciality, with its own WhatsApp line +41 78 709 67 74); and a selected second-hand wardrobe. ## What BR0CANTE buys — and how that differs from an auction house BR0CANTE buys **directly and outright**: it makes an offer, pays, and takes the goods. There is no commission, no seller's fee and no waiting for a sale date, which is the difference from a Geneva auction house (*maison de vente*). Free valuation, and it travels to the client anywhere in the canton of Geneva. - **Estates and clearances** — valuing and buying the contents of an apartment or house, then clearing whatever is left. With debarr.as. - **Gold, silver, watches and jewellery** — free valuation, immediate payment at the day's rate. With g0ld.ch. - **Paintings, art, sculpture and 20th-century design furniture.** With Époque (epq.ch). - The quickest route to a first estimate is a few photographs on WhatsApp to +41 79 232 22 21, or a phone call. ## Other dates - **Puces de Nyon** (Nyon, canton of Vaud) — fixed stand no. 189, the **last Sunday of every month**. - **Brocante de Genève, Quai du Mont-Blanc** — stand no. 25, **17–20 September 2026**, Thursday to Sunday, 10:00–19:00. ## Background The Geneva flea-market trade organised itself in **1898**, when the *Syndicat des marchands forains du canton de Genève* was founded. The traders sat around place Saint-Gervais and rue Coutance for nearly half a century, moved several times across the city — pointe de l'Île, place Isaac-Mercier — and finally settled on the Plaine de Plainpalais, where the market is now one of the largest in Europe, with several hundred traders. ## Pages - **French (canonical)** — https://br0cante.ch/ - **English** — https://br0cante.ch/en/ - **Deutsch** — https://br0cante.ch/de/ - **Italiano** — https://br0cante.ch/it/ - **العربية** — https://br0cante.ch/ar/ - **中文** — https://br0cante.ch/zh/ - **Русский** — https://br0cante.ch/ru/ All seven carry the same facts. The French page is canonical and is the x-default. ## What this business is not - Not a shop with a street address open every day — it is a **market stand**, present on the three market days above. - Not an auction house and not a broker: it buys for its own account. - Not the organiser of the Marché aux Puces de Plainpalais. That market is run by the Ville de Genève; BR0CANTE is one of its traders. ## Sister houses debarr.as (clearances) · g0ld.ch (gold and silver, trading as ORUM) · epq.ch (Époque — art and design) · tap1s.ch (rugs and carpets) · fourrure.ch and thr1ft.ch (announced, not yet online).