About this place
The Mercado Central de Lanuza is one of the finest examples of early-twentieth-century iron architecture in Spain, a graceful market hall completed in 1903 by the architect Félix Navarro. Light and elegant, its structure of slender iron columns, brickwork and vast glazed walls allowed air and daylight to flood the interior, a model of modern, hygienic design for its day. It stands on an ancient marketplace site, right beside a surviving stretch of the Roman walls of Caesaraugusta and the bronze statue of Augustus, so that commerce has flowed across this spot for two thousand years. After a careful restoration, the market reopened in 2020, its historic ironwork gleaming, and it continues to serve the city as a working food market, its stalls piled with the fruit, vegetables, meat and fish of the fertile Ebro valley. It makes a fitting, flavourful end to a walk through the layered history of Zaragoza.
Key facts
- 1903 year — The modernist iron-and-glass market hall was completed by architect Félix Navarro
- 2020 year — The market reopened after a major restoration of its historic structure
- 2000 years — A marketplace has occupied this spot since Roman times, beside the old walls
📍 Avenida de César Augusto 110, 50004, Zaragoza