Mercado de la Abejera
Mercado de la Abejera is a prefabricated iron market hall in the La Abejera district of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Its parts were ordered from London and reached the city aboard the steamer Nubia in 1897, and in 1947 the structure was dismantled in the city centre and rebuilt in this neighbourhood. The market's own website describes the building as semi-abandoned, with a single fruit stall still working out of the 18 it once housed.
Mercado de la Abejera is a prefabricated iron hall designed by the municipal architect Antonio Pintor at the end of the nineteenth century. The parts were made in London and reached Santa Cruz de Tenerife aboard the steamer Nubia in 1897, and the engineer Luis Braun took charge of assembling them. In its first years it worked as a fish market beside the Recova Vieja, and in 1947 the whole structure was taken apart and moved to the La Abejera neighbourhood, where it still stands.
The market's own website now describes the building as semi-abandoned: of the 18 stalls it once held, among them a bar, a butcher, a fishmonger and a flower stand, only one fruit stall is still working. On that basis it sets out a plan to bring the hall back as a produce market and food venue, with a street market, talks, tastings, live music and photography exhibitions.
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