Markets in Aranjuez

Staying in the Town Centre puts you within easy walking distance of the markets and the Royal Palace gardens. The town is compact, so almost anywhere central works well for getting around on foot.

For a comfortable base, NH Collection Palacio de Aranjuez is a reliable option with a great location, or look at Hotel Infantas de Aranjuez for something a little more affordable. Both keep you close to the main market areas without needing a car.

Every published market here is a street market, and between them they cover two quite different kinds of shopping. The produce pitches sell fresh fruit and vegetables, including the Tagus valley strawberries and asparagus the town is known for, alongside clothing, textiles, footwear and leather. The rest of the trade is antiques, books and magazines, and handicrafts, which is more than a town of this size usually supports and reason enough for the trip on its own.

The largest is the Aranjuez Street Market, with 45 stalls. The rest of the province is covered on the markets across Madrid province page. For official dates and any seasonal schedule changes, the Aranjuez tourism website is the most reliable source.

Sunday is the market day in Aranjuez, with three of the four trading, and Saturday carries the fourth. Nothing sets up between Monday and Friday, so a weekday trip to the town means the Royal Palace gardens rather than a mercadillo.

Aranjuez is well connected by commuter rail to Madrid, which has some of Spain's largest and most varied markets. If you are exploring the southern Madrid area, Getafe also holds regular weekly street markets within easy reach.

Three of Aranjuez's four street markets run on a Sunday, and the fourth trades on a Saturday, so a weekend stay catches all of them. No market in the town sets up between Monday and Friday, which makes Sunday morning the busiest time to shop and the day worth planning a visit around.

Markets in Aranjuez usually open at 10am and pack up around 2pm, so the useful window is late morning. Arriving before midday gives you the fullest run of pitches at the 45-stall Aranjuez Street Market, the largest of the four, and the best of the fruit and vegetable stalls before they thin out.

Aranjuez has four published markets, all of them weekly street markets trading in the open air. None is a covered municipal market, so everything listed here depends on the weather and packs up by early afternoon on a Saturday or a Sunday.

Markets in Aranjuez sell antiques, books and magazines, handicrafts, clothing and textiles, footwear and leather, and fresh fruit and vegetables. The antiques and second-hand book pitches are what set the town apart from an ordinary weekly mercadillo, and the produce stalls carry the Tagus valley fruit and vegetables the area has long been known for.