Travel by photos – La Boqueria market, Barcelona
If you enjoy summertime, you will surely love Barcelona. Even with its countless attractions and great foods, reasonable pricing means visiting Barcelona will never burn a hole in your pocket. In fact, Barcelona was among the cheapest city to travel on my 2 previous Europe trips which included cities such as London, Paris, Rome, Lucern, Berlin, Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam.
La Boqueria is one of the best place to find some great bargain on… foods. Especially for summertime, you can get some really good choices of Mediterranean fruits to cool you down!
La Boqueria is the fresh market in the city centre of Barcelona. If you are wandering La Rambla street in a hot afternoon in Barcelona (well, all visitors stop by here anyway), find your way to this market along La Rambla that tucked in between 2 rows of shops, and start looking for bargains and capturing colourful scenes with your camera!
Here are my collection of photos with those wild colours and crazy bargain found in the market of La Boqueria.
One of the biggest hit is of course Jamon stall, or Spanish ham.
Fruits are the main actor here.
No one can resist on these colorful soft candies!
Other than fresh fruits, preserved or dried fruits are also popular in the market.
Did I miss out ‘the must’ in a fruit market, such as fresh fruit juice and cuts?
Shell seafood is also available in La Boqueria.
And of course dairy products such as cheese, butters and eggs.
This is pricing for a Kilogram in Euro’s.
Let’s capture some wild colours!
2€ for an Argentine snack. Wanna try?
I bought a Kilo of these strawberries for only 1.19€!
Jelly? Nope. It’s preserved cherries in a jug.
Click the above to view all my Barcelona trip photos in slideshow. Check out my Flickr page if you wish to view them in high resolution. All photos were taken with myNikon D7000.
What’s my verdict?
- Environment: Fair √ √ √
- Features to explore: Good √ √ √ √
- Photographic opportunities: Good √ √ √ √
- Accessability: Good √ √ √ √
- Worthiness of visit: Good √ √ √ √
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Overall Travel Score : 76% (Good)
- Verdict: By combining features to explore and photographic opportunities within the market, La Boqueria is surely a great stopover for travelers exploring the huge city of Barcelona! – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo blog
About The Author
Cecil Lee
The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.
We went to Barcelona in April and stumbled upon La Boqueria whilst wondering up Las Ramblas. What an amazing place full of life and colour. Your photos really do it justice!
- August 9, 2012