L'Hospitalet de l'Infant Street Market

L'Hospitalet de l'Infant Street Market sets up every Sunday from 9am to 2pm, one of the markets in L'Hospitalet de l'Infant in Tarragona province. Locally this is the mercat setmanal, the town's weekly market, listed in Spanish as the Mercadillo de L'Hospitalet de l'Infant. Five hours is the whole of it, and by 2pm the stalls are down until the following Sunday.

What you'll find at L'Hospitalet de l'Infant Street Market

Five product categories are recorded here: fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, clothing and textiles, footwear and leather goods, and handicrafts. That mix makes it a general street market rather than a food market, so a produce stall and a shoe stall sit a few metres apart and you can do the week's fruit and a pair of espadrilles in the same walk.

Payment is the detail worth knowing before you go. The market records both cash and card, which is not the norm for a Spanish street market, where a stallholder with a card reader is still the exception. Bring cash anyway for the smaller stalls, since card acceptance is recorded for the market rather than promised at every pitch.

How to get to L'Hospitalet de l'Infant Street Market

We hold no street address for this market beyond the 43890 postcode covering L'Hospitalet de l'Infant, so start in the town centre and follow the stalls rather than a map pin. Everything is in the open air at ground level, and the market is listed as wheelchair accessible. If Sunday does not suit your trip, the street markets in this city and the province show what else trades nearby.

Where to stay in L'Hospitalet de l'Infant

Staying close to the seafront keeps you within a short walk of the Sunday stalls, and Town Centre has several good options. The Playa de l'Hospitalet area is another solid choice, with apartments and small hotels handy for both the beach and the market.

What day is L'Hospitalet de l'Infant market?

L'Hospitalet de l'Infant Street Market runs every Sunday, 9am to 2pm. The pattern is weekly and year round, with no seasonal break recorded, so the same Sunday morning applies in February as in August. Sunday is the only trading day the market keeps: a weekday visit to the town will find nothing set up.

What can you buy at L'Hospitalet de l'Infant market?

L'Hospitalet de l'Infant Street Market sells fresh fruit and vegetables, clothing and textiles, footwear and leather goods, and handicrafts. There is no separate stall count recorded, and no food hall behind it, since the whole market is an open-air one that assembles on Sunday morning and clears by two in the afternoon.

Do I need cash at L'Hospitalet de l'Infant market?

No, L'Hospitalet de l'Infant Street Market records card payments as well as cash, which is unusual for a Spanish street market and useful if you arrive on a Sunday with the banks shut. Carry some cash regardless, because the record covers the market as a whole rather than every individual stallholder.

Is L'Hospitalet de l'Infant market wheelchair accessible?

Yes, L'Hospitalet de l'Infant Street Market is recorded as wheelchair accessible. It is an outdoor market with no building attached, so there are no steps, doors or thresholds between the street and the stalls, and the whole of it is browsed at ground level within the 9am to 2pm Sunday window.