Traders at the Mercat de l'Abaceria, who will be starting to transfer their businesses as from next week, have organised various activities to celebrate the opening of the facility on Saturday 21 November. The programme includes:

• Children’s games from 10.30 am to 1 pm.
• A workshop with the Castellers de Gràcia from 11 am to 12 noon.
• Live music with The A Swing Band from 12 noon to 2.30 pm.
• Ecopagès children’s activity from 12 noon to 1 pm.

Thirty-seven stalls and two exhibition spaces

The new market has 37 establishments: 30 stalls inside, 6 outside and a supermarket. It will also have an information point and centralised home delivery service, refrigerated lockers, a breastfeeding and babycare room, a cookery area, multi-purpose room and car parking for customers.

The facility will also have two exhibition areas in homage to Amaia Arrazola (Vitòria, 1984-Barcelona, 2025), the goal being to preserve the work that the artist designed for the market. The first space will feature part of the mural that Arrazola painted on the outside fence around the work at the market, and the second, on the mezzanine floor, will feature vinyls with the original design for the mural so that it can be seen directly from the balcony on the second floor, with the market stalls as the backdrop.

A more modern market that fits in with the neighbourhood

With an investment of 38 million euros, the renovation of the Mercat de l’Abaceria offers a modern and updated new commercial facility for the district and the city, with 14,350 square metres of floor space. The design of the new building, with more transparent elements in the façades and a more open design with more greenery, is intended to fit in better with public space in a dense urban area with narrow streets. The ceramic rooftop features solar panelling and offers significant architectural value to the site, which retains the same dimensions as the original market.