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Sant Antoni Market is among the biggest and most important markets in Barcelona that extends to cover an area of about 5.214 square metres. It was the first building of this type to be built in accordance with Ildefons Cerdá’s plan.

In 1882 the market of Antoni Rovira i Trias and Joseph M. Cornet i Mas was inaugurated and what better place than in the nerve centre of the neighbourhood where the streets Conde de Urgel, Tamarit, Conde Borell and Manso intersect.

This iron structure was raised on a plan in the shape of a Greek cross. The piece exploits to the fullest the realms of geometrical possibilities that the Eixample allows for, not to mention that the academic postulates advanced by its very author are here applied. Volume and spatial organisation are based on the total occupation of the block at the first level and the emergence of two large naves disposed diagonally at a second level that at one point intersect giving rise to the tall body of a tower.

Four times a week huge crowds of shoppers and curious passers-by pour in and move about the three departments: food, clothing and accessories.

Sundays is when aficionados of all sorts of collectibles come to gather and barter for items such as stamps, coins, badges and magazines, among other things, and is known as the Sunday Market of Sant Antoni.

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