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The Marrubial is the biggest municipal market in Córdoba and sees no tourist trade at all, forty-five pitches including a stall selling only snails.
TipGo before 11:00 if you want the fish counters at their best; everything shuts at 14:00.
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Mercado Victoria was the first gastronomic market in Andalusia, more than twenty stalls under a late-nineteenth-century iron pavilion in central Córdoba.
OrderSalmorejo at La Salmoreteca before anything else.
TipThe drinks area at Sojo Mercado opens at 15:00 and runs later than the food stalls do.
€€€€Food hallCorredera
The Mercado de la Corredera trades inside the arcade of Córdoba's Castilian-style square, five fishmongers and a spice stall among seventeen working units.
OrderBuy fish at one of the five pescaderías; the in-market bar will grill it for you.
TipThe bar inside grills whatever you have just bought for about €3, which is the whole point of coming.
€€€€Food hallSanta Marina
The Marrubial is Córdoba's biggest municipal market, forty-five trading pitches with ten fishmongers and, unusually, a stall selling nothing but snails.
OrderCaracoles from the market's own caracolero, in the spring snail season.
TipTen fishmongers in a landlocked city is a direct product of the Mercacórdoba wholesale platform.
€€€€Food hallPoniente
Mercado de Ciudad Jardín is a working neighbourhood market in Córdoba, twelve businesses filling thirty of its thirty-nine pitches and no tourists at all.
OrderCharcuterie from Hermanos Santiago, or whatever Casa Manolo has behind the counter.
TipIt shuts at 14:00 six days a week, so this is a morning errand rather than a lunch plan.
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The Mercado del Sector Sur trades on Plaza del Mediodía south of the river, thirty-seven working stalls with three fishmongers and two picklers.
OrderEncurtidos from one of the two pickle stalls, a southside speciality.
TipIt opens at 07:30, earliest of Córdoba's municipal markets, and the in-market bar does breakfast alongside the shopping.
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Mercado Huerta de la Reina is a compact market hall on Calle Luis Ponce de León, four working businesses covering fruit, fish and a butcher's block.
OrderMorning fruit from one of the two fruteros; stock moves fast in a hall this small.
TipTwelve pitches, four traders: come before 13:00 or the fishmonger will have sold through the day's ice.
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Mercado del Naranjo on Plaza de Bellavista is the smallest of Córdoba's municipal markets, one butcher's stall keeping the neighbourhood hall open.
OrderThe carnicería's cuts; it is the only trader, and the reason the hall still opens.
TipThis is a working single-stall hall in a northern barrio, worth a stop only if you are already up by Plaza de Bellavista.