L'Escala Fruit and Vegetable Market Featured
Twenty stalls of fruit, vegetables and organic produce in Plaça de Víctor Català, open 9am to 1:30pm on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Fresh Fruits · Fresh Vegetables · Organic Products
Markets in L'Escala
3 markets tracked in L'Escala.
L'Escala is a fishing town on the Costa Brava, known for its anchovies and the Greek and Roman ruins at Empúries, and it has three street markets and no covered municipal market. Between them they trade on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, and the usual hours are 9am to 1.30pm. What is on sale splits fairly clearly between clothing, footwear and jewellery on one side and fresh fruit, vegetables and organic produce on the other, with handicraft stalls alongside.
Weekly Market Schedule
Where to stay in L'Escala
Staying close to the old town puts you within easy walking distance of L'Escala's markets and the seafront. Try Old Town for a central base, or look at options along Riells Beach if you want to combine market visits with easy beach access.
Planning the trip
Heading to L'Escala? Omio compares bus and train routes, YeSim gets an eSIM ready before you land, and GetYourGuide lists local food tours and experiences worth building a day around.
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Street markets in L'Escala
Every market in L'Escala is a street market, set up in the open and packed away the same morning. The largest is the L'Escala Weekly Market, which runs 40 stalls, and the other two are smaller and more specialised, one leaning towards food and one towards handmade goods. Together they cover clothing and textiles, footwear and leather, jewellery, handicrafts, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and organic products.
That mix makes them worth a look for two different reasons. If you are self-catering, the produce stalls are the cheaper alternative to the supermarkets on the way into town, and the organic growers here work the farmland of the Alt Empordà behind the coast. If you are here on holiday, the clothing, footwear and jewellery stalls are the ones to head for.
L'Escala Riba Night Market Featured
Known locally as the Riba Market, it runs every Thursday from 7pm to midnight with 20 stalls of handicrafts and jewellery on La Riba in L'Escala.
Handicrafts · Jewelry
L'Escala Weekly Market
Sunday market of around 40 stalls on Passeig Mar, the seafront promenade in L'Escala, Girona.
Clothing & Textiles · Footwear & Leather · Fresh Fruits · Fresh Vegetables
Market days in L'Escala
Thursday is the busiest day, with two of the town's three markets trading. Two also trade on Sunday and one on Saturday, which leaves Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday with nothing setting up anywhere in town. If you are only in L'Escala for a couple of days, that is worth checking before you plan around it.
Stalls are generally in place by 9am and start breaking down from about 1.30pm, so mid-morning is the safe window rather than lunchtime. For market days in the surrounding towns, the province page lists everything trading across Girona.
What day is the market in L'Escala?
L'Escala's markets trade on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, and Thursday is the busiest of the three, with two of the town's markets setting up that day. Two also run on Sunday and one on Saturday. Nothing trades on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday, and the usual hours are 9am to 1.30pm.
How many markets are there in L'Escala?
L'Escala has three markets, all of them street markets, and no municipal food market. The biggest is the L'Escala Weekly Market with 40 stalls, which is the one most visitors mean when they ask about the market here. The other two are smaller, and all three are within the town itself.
What can you buy at the markets in L'Escala?
Stalls across L'Escala's three markets sell clothing and textiles, footwear and leather, jewellery, handicrafts, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and organic products. The clothing and footwear stalls are concentrated in the 40-stall weekly market, and the produce and organic growers come in from the farmland of the Alt Empordà just behind the coast.