Colón Market

The Mercado de Colón, in Valencia

The Mercado de Colón is a magnificent modernist building of Valencia, become an elegant space of cafés and restaurants. The Valencia audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this jewel of the architecture of the beginning of the twentieth century, a former market reconverted into a refined place of life.

The reconverted modernist market

The Mercado de Colón is one of the finest examples of the modernist architecture of Valencia. Built at the beginning of the twentieth century to serve as a market for a then residential and well-off district, it stands out by its spectacular architecture: a vast open hall, with a structure of iron and glass, whose great façades in the form of a monumental arch are richly adorned with bricks, colourful ceramics, mosaics and floral motifs, celebrating the fruits and nature in the pure modernist style. After having ceased its function of food market, the building has been magnificently restored and reconverted into an elegant leisure space: it today shelters cafés, restaurants, terraces and refined shops, in a setting bathed in light. Become a prized meeting place of the people of Valencia, it marries architectural heritage and art of living. A jewel of modernism and an elegant space of life, the Mercado de Colón is a fine stop of the discovery of Valencia.

What to see

You admire one of the finest examples of Valencian modernism, a former market of the beginning of the twentieth century with a vast hall of iron and glass, with great monumental arch façades richly adorned with bricks, colourful ceramics and floral motifs, magnificently restored and reconverted into an elegant space of cafés, restaurants and shops bathed in light. The Mercado de Colón is a jewel of Valencia. It is a stop to be discovered, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Mercado de Colón lies in the Eixample district, in Valencia, reachable on foot. The building is generally freely accessible; the cafés, restaurants and shops have their own hours. It is a pleasant place at any hour of the day.

What is the Mercado de Colón in Valencia?

One of the finest examples of Valencian modernism, a former market of the beginning of the twentieth century with a vast hall of iron and glass and arch façades richly adorned with ceramics; magnificently restored, it is today an elegant space of cafés, restaurants and shops.

Where is the Mercado de Colón of Valencia?

In the Eixample district, in Valencia, in Spain.