Alcaicería
Guide
Photo: Jesus Abizanda from Barbastro, Huesca, Spain · CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeMarketAllow 20–40 minPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
A few narrow lanes of little shops beside the cathedral, with Moorish-style arches and stalls of lamps, tiles, slippers and tea sets.
A brief history
This was the city's silk market under the Nasrids; it burned down in 1843 and was rebuilt in the same style soon after.
Tips
- Best time
- Morning, before the cathedral
- Cost
- Free to wander
- Allow
- 20–40 min
- Free days
- Always free
- Hours
- Stalls usually open daily from morning to evening (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- The centre: Flat streets around the cathedral and Plaza Nueva, with the monasteries a little further out; handy for buses and full of tapas bars.
- Access
- Step-free
- Indoors or out
- Outdoors
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