SANT ANTONI SUNDAY MARKET / BARCELONA: TIMELESS BOOKS. On Sundays, Barcelona smells of old books and steaming dust on a vinyl by Frank Zappa. Once every seven days, 52 times a year, the Sant Antoni Sunday market faithfully receives collectors of second-hand books, stamps or those in search declassified records. Between the Ensanche and the Raval districts, and now having run for more than 70 years, this market has become a meeting place for seekers of old titles at the good price, audio-visual materials and video games. OVIEDO MARKET: A PRIVILEGED CORNER. In the ancient quarter, Oviedo street market is held every Sunday morning. It is spread along eight streets and offers from bo

  When I remember my visits to the Boqueria market on the Barcelona Rambles, what I remember is the life and colour. The life of the hundreds of stands full of goods, the life of the people filling their shopping baskets and getting their energy back with a fruit juice or enjoying a glass of Penedés with the Saturday hors d’oeuvres. The colour of the explosion of hundreds of glasses of water melon, melon, orange and kiwi drinks, of the tomatoes from the vegetable gardens and the brilliant baskets of strawberries.   The Boqueria is Barcelona. It is a cocktail of visitors and people of Barcelona from the Raval, Gothic and Born districts. The perfect metaph