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Where Córdoba shops, snacks and lunches: the markets worth your morning.
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Córdoba shops, snacks and lunches.
Mercado Victoria was the first gastronomic market in Andalusia, more than twenty stalls under a late-nineteenth-century iron pavilion in central Córdoba.
Go for: Salmorejo, Japanese, Iberian ham, Oysters
Tip: The drinks area at Sojo Mercado opens at 15:00 and runs later than the food stalls do.
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.
Go for: Fish, Spices, Fruit and vegetables
Tip: The bar inside grills whatever you have just bought for about €3, which is the whole point of coming.
The Marrubial is Córdoba's biggest municipal market, forty-five trading pitches with ten fishmongers and, unusually, a stall selling nothing but snails.
Go for: Fish, Snails, Spices, Olives
Tip: Ten fishmongers in a landlocked city is a direct product of the Mercacórdoba wholesale platform.
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.
Go for: Meat, Fish, Charcuterie
Tip: It shuts at 14:00 six days a week, so this is a morning errand rather than a lunch plan.
The Mercado del Sector Sur trades on Plaza del Mediodía south of the river, thirty-seven working stalls with three fishmongers and two picklers.
Go for: Fish, Meat, Pickles, Charcuterie
Tip: It opens at 07:30, earliest of Córdoba's municipal markets, and the in-market bar does breakfast alongside the shopping.
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.
Go for: Fruit, Fish, Meat
Tip: Twelve pitches, four traders: come before 13:00 or the fishmonger will have sold through the day's ice.
Mercado del Naranjo on Plaza de Bellavista is the smallest of Córdoba's municipal markets, one butcher's stall keeping the neighbourhood hall open.
Go for: Meat
Tip: This is a working single-stall hall in a northern barrio, worth a stop only if you are already up by Plaza de Bellavista.