Spain Guide
Valencia and Murcia
Mercado Central
Address: Plaza del Mercado
Opening time: Mon– Sat until around 2pm; closed Sun
Price: Free
The enormous Mercado Central is a modernista iron, girder and glass structure built in 1928, embellished with a collage of tiles and mosaics, and crowned with swordfish and parrot weather vanes. It's one of the biggest markets in Europe – fitting for huerta country – with almost a thousand stalls selling fruit and vegetables, meat and seafood, hard-to-find herbs and health foods.