Mercado de San Miguel & El Rastro
Mercado de San Miguel / El Rastro
Tapas in an iron-and-glass market, then the Sunday flea market
⚠ Rastro: Sunday mornings only
- Hours
- San Miguel Sun–Thu 10:00–24:00, Fri–Sat 10:00–01:00 (check on site) / Rastro Sundays & holidays, morning until about 15:00
- Tickets
- Free entry; San Miguel tapas from a few euros a plate, varying by stall
- Address
- San Miguel is just west of Plaza Mayor; El Rastro is a 10-minute walk south, around Plaza de Cascorro and Ribera de Curtidores
The Mercado de San Miguel is a 1916 iron-and-glass market hall filled wall to wall with tapas counters: ham being carved, oysters and prawns, olive skewers, croquetas. You buy a plate here, a glass there, and eat standing up. Ten minutes south, El Rastro, the flea market that sets up only on Sunday and holiday mornings, spills downhill from Plaza de Cascorro in an endless line of stalls: old postcards, leather goods, vinyl, unidentifiable antiques. On a Sunday, do Rastro, then tapas in the La Latina lanes, then San Miguel, and lunch takes care of itself.