The covered Sant Andreu market

Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, Barcelona City Council promoted the construction of covered markets in order to regularise the itinerant and outdoor stalls that peppered the city. At that time, Sant Andreu de Palomar was still an independent town, and the farmers and peasants still set up their stalls in the Plaça del Mercadal to sell their products directly to local residents.

When Sant Andreu de Palomar became the ninth district in Barcelona in 1897, City Council wanted to equip it with a proper safe covered market. In 1914, it covered the square with an iron structure and later built inside it.

Plaça Mercadal

In the mid-nineteenth century, it was designed in the neoclassical style based on arcades that would later support residential buildings. The square was the nerve centre of commercial life in the old town of Sant Andreu de Palomar. The current Sant Andreu market, rebuilt and opened in 2022, is in the middle of the square.