Mercado Central de Zaragoza

There has been a market here since about 1200. By 1900 or so, it was decided to build a modern market, and the work was entrusted to Felix Navarro (a great architect, dead now some 100 years). He was one of those architects to introduce new materials, especially iron, to Spanish architecture. The new market opened in 1903. Five years later, Miguel Echegaray and Manuel Fernandez Caballero passed through here, and wrote about it in their work "Gigantes y Cabezudos". The entire first part takes place here in the square, from the fights between the vendors to the news that the City Council is going