Meandering Granada’s Street Markets

The smell of exotic spices permeates the alleys around the Cathédrale de l’Incarnation de Grenade. On rainy days the spice carts are quickly covered to protect their precious cargo. On sunny days you can smell the spices from a distance.

A few blocks away is the Mercado San Agustín with its fruit stands, meat sellers, dried fish, sweet delicacies, and carts with unidentifiable items. Here locals barter and banter with sellers in loud Spanish.

One can’t overlook the Alcaicería, once a Moorish silk bazaar and now tiny claustrophobic streets full of souvenir shops and tourists. If anything, the tiny stone streets make you feel like you’ve been transported back hundreds of years to its lively past.

These are the various street markets of Granada. Some are small, some expensive, others cheap, but one thing is for sure: all are interesting and a photographic feast.