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Mercado Altavista is the municipal market of the Altavista neighbourhood, in the Ciudad Alta district of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It occupies an 1,800 square metre building opened in 1970 and brings together food stalls: butchers, fishmongers, greengrocers, bakeries and cake shops, cheese and cured meat counters and herbalists, along with fashion and accessories. It belongs to the Mercados Tradicionales de Canarias network.
The municipal market of Gáldar, known as La Recova, occupies a 1945 building on Calle Capitán Quesada, in the heart of the old town. Inside there are fruit and vegetable stalls, a butcher, a stall for organic produce and a bar cafeteria, stocked largely from the north of Gran Canaria. The entrance keeps its original iron railings, and the main gallery holds two allegorical sculptures by Juan Borges Linares.
The Mercado Agrícola de San Lorenzo occupies an open air site in the San Lorenzo district of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with some twenty five stalls where the producers themselves sell what they grow and make. The range covers cheeses and dairy products, fruit and vegetables, bread, pastries, olives, jams and handmade mojo sauces, all of local production.
Vega de San Mateo hosts the largest direct sales point for Gran Canaria's farmers, right in the middle of the town and a few metres from the historic centre. The grounds cover around 10,000 square metres across two halls plus an outdoor area of tents. Stalls bring together cheese, honey, fruit, vegetables, medicinal plants, wines, liqueurs, preserves and mojo sauces alongside crafts, textiles and cut flowers.
A covered market in the Puerto de la Luz district, on Calle Albareda. The 1891 building is the finest piece of iron architecture on Gran Canaria: it was put up by technicians from the French firm linked to Gustave Eiffel, with cast iron columns, glazed roofing and an octagonal dome over the centre. Inside, fish, meat, fruit and vegetable stalls sit alongside tapas counters and small restaurants.
The Vegueta market is the oldest in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and stands at the former mouth of the Guiniguada ravine, facing the Pérez Galdós theatre and two minutes on foot from Santa Ana cathedral and the Casa de Colón. The building, from the middle of the nineteenth century, was listed as a Site of Cultural Interest in 2005 and now houses more than forty stalls combining traditional shopping with contemporary food offerings.
Municipal street market of Telde, in Jinámar, set up between the Ramblas de Jinámar and the Juan Carlos Moreno sports centre. It comes under the markets department of the Ayuntamiento de Telde, which authorises the site and allocates the selling modules. The municipal street trading by-law reserves part of the stalls for farmers, who sell directly what they harvest, and a further part for craft activities.
The main municipal food market of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on Calle Galicia beside the Mesa y López shopping district. It was built on former dunes to a design by the architect Manuel Ponce de León and opened in July 1957. Around one hundred and twenty eight stalls spread over two floors and a shopping gallery sell fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and other fresh produce from the island.
Telde's municipal food market occupies a two-storey building on Calle Joan Miró, in the San Gregorio district, and is the town's historic reference for fresh produce and neighbourhood trade. The building has been through a full refurbishment and its reopening is still under way, so it is not running as usual: the stallholders are selling at the provisional market in the Área Polivalente de Narea. Worth confirming the location before setting out.
Municipal street market of Maspalomas (San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Gran Canaria), held on Wednesdays and Saturdays in Parque Europeo in Playa del Inglés, where it has been since 2022. It is among the markets that islas24 gathers for Gran Canaria, ordered by municipality.
The craft market of Puerto de Mogán is set up on the upper side of the village, next to the car park and along the line of the old road, in the municipality of Mogán in the south west of Gran Canaria. The stalls are given over mainly to handicrafts: leather goods, ceramics, costume jewellery and small glass figures. The ground sits above the harbour and the centre of Playa de Mogán.
The Rastro de Maspalomas is the second-hand market of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, run by the markets department of the town council. It is held on Sundays in the car parks of the Ciudad Deportiva de Maspalomas, the municipal sports complex on Avenida Finnair, in the Sonnenland area. The council moved the market to this site in November 2022, because of refurbishment work planned at the municipal market.
The flea market of the Gran Canaria capital is held on Sundays on the Ramblas Alcalde Juan Rodríguez Doreste (Parque Blanco) and is, according to the island's market guides, the largest in the city. Hundreds of stalls carry second hand clothing, antiques, accessories, tools and hard to find objects.
One of the oldest street markets on Gran Canaria, with two centuries of history behind it, set up around the Basílica del Pino and the Plaza de Sintes. The council brings together more than seventy stalls here with food and local produce, textiles, crafts, plants and religious objects, alongside the Rincón del Artesano, a space given over to Canary craftwork.
A municipal street market of Santa Lucía de Tirajana held on Wednesdays in Vecindario, on Calle Gamonal at the corner with Calle Perojo, on the plot next to the exhibition grounds. It is the largest of the town's three markets: it takes up to a hundred and twenty street trading licences and brings together stalls of food, textiles, footwear, second hand goods, flowers, plants and seeds. The same yard hosts a small food market on Mondays.
Santa Brígida's farmers' and craft market fills the Paseo del Guiniguada, right in the old centre of the Villa. It was set up in the mid-1980s on a council initiative, so that growers from the area could sell their own harvest directly. Around thirty stalls cover fruit and vegetables, bread and traditional pastries, island cheeses, wines and Canarian products, flowers and handmade crafts.
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