- Address: Plaza de San Miguel, s / n, 28005, Madrid España
- Website: mercadodesanmiguel.es
Most tourists go shopping to local markets (one of the brightest representatives is the El Rastro flea market ) in the hope of buying inexpensive souvenirs or fresh unique products and paying less than in a store near the hotel. But the trip to the market of San Miguel can be equated with visiting the museum (there is another similar place in Madrid - the museum of the jamon , in which they not only look at the "exhibits", but also taste and even buy).
The market of San Miguel in Madrid (Mercado de San Miguel) is a blend of the oriental bazaar and a real Russian fair, an excellent idea of the owners, which turned a small square into a stupefying street of food. From the usual for us counter you will find little, of course, you can buy food here, but tourists, and local people go here for pleasure and a full-bodied mood.
Architecturally the market is made of cast-iron open-work carcass in 1915, almost all stalls and counters are two-level and decorated with intricate ceramics. And after the recent restoration of old shopping pavilions everywhere converted into tapas bars (selling small snacks to beer or wine). Here, at you in kiosks and on trolleys, everything is prepared and sold. Everywhere there are free tables, where everything is eaten with great appetite: tempting tapas, fragrant pies, sipping oysters, tropical fruits, Japanese sushi, Spanish paella and much more.
In addition to the bulk of the counters, there are also food boutiques on the market, where you can buy fresh and ready fish and seafood, pastries and bread, unusual fruits and juices from them. Many families are engaged in this generation and can offer you the real curiosities. For those immersed in Spanish cooking, there are also recipe books of different peoples and eras, as well as quality dishes and kitchen utensils.
The market of San Miguel offers you not only local and overseas delights for every taste and purse, but also the traditions of tasting and eating. All that you see, you can, and even more, need to try, refreshing the flavor of the aroma of local wine. And, of course, something to take with you (many tourists, not knowing what to bring from Spain , stop their choice is on this kind of gastronomic souvenirs).
How to get there?
The market and the area on which it was formed bear the same name and are located in the central part of Madrid near the Plaza Mayor . The nearest metro station is the Puerta del Sol , before it you can easily reach the metro by lines L1, L2 and L3, along the L2, L5 and R branches to the Ópera station. Prior to the San Miguel Square, there are also buses, you will find routes No.3 and No.148 to go to the Mayor-Plaza de la Villa stop.
Having decided to visit the market of San Miguel in Madrid, you may not recognize his opening hours, as the market formally closes only from 5 to 6 in the morning. Although on the official sign and indicated that it works from 10 am to 2 am, but where the work of the counter ends, late at night coffee shops and cafes, bars and restaurants continue to open, nightclubs open. For tourists, the market of San Miguel is practically a round-the-clock appetizing spectacular party place.
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