Salgueiriños Street Market

Salgueiriños Market runs every Thursday from 9am to 2pm, on a weekly cycle, on Rúa de Melide in Santiago de Compostela. There is no second trading day: if you miss the Thursday, the next chance is a week later, when the same 25 or so stalls set up again.

Salgueiriños Market's 25 stalls sell clothing and textiles, footwear and leather goods, handicrafts, and books and magazines. It is a general street market rather than a food market, so it suits anyone after everyday clothes, shoes or a browse through the book stalls.

Yes, Salgueiriños Market takes contactless cards and mobile payments as well as cash, which is unusual for a Spanish street market. Card readers are down to the individual trader, though, so carry some cash for the stalls that only take it, especially for small purchases from the book and craft stalls.

Salgueiriños Market sets up on Rúa de Melide in the residential Salgueiriños district of Santiago de Compostela, out beyond the old town rather than in it. City bus route 1 runs there from the centre, the site is wheelchair accessible, and there is street parking in the surrounding roads.