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Markets tomorrow in La Palma

Flea Market, Santa Cruz de la Palma

Santa Cruz Flea Market
Tomorrow the monthly flea market will be held in the port car park at Santa Cruz de la Palma. There’s an amazing variety of stuff on sale. For some reason there are lots of flowers, plants and vegetables, but also various crafts and antiques.

Argual Flea Market, Los Llanos

The flea market in Argual, just outside Los Llanos, takes place every Sunday from about 10 am to about 2 pm. It’s smaller than the monthly market in Santa Cruz, but it’s a much nicer situation. I think it’s been a market square for a very long time. At any rate, it’s surrounded by beautiful old buildings and has trees growing in the middle (which must be really nice on the hottest days).

This market has a slightly different flavour to Santa Cruz. It has a much higher percentage of German Hippies selling New Age things like Tibetan singing bowls.

I only saw two stalls setting plants. One also sold vegetables, and I bought some really good broccoli, plus sage and dill for the garden.

And one man was selling Palmeran cigars. Now I don’t smoke, but I believe Palmeran tobacco has a very good reputation.

Last time I went, my favourite bit was the dreamy live music. The instrument on the left is a digeridoo and the instrument on the right is a hang

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Los Cancajos market

Local market at Los Cancajos, Breña Baja, La Palma

La Palma has a new weekly market, this time at the popular tourist resort of Los Cancajos. It's open on Saturdays from 9 am to 2 pm, at the south end of the sea front, near the Las Olas hotel.

Local market at Los Cancajos, Breña Baja, La Palma

There's another fairly new market that takes place on Fridays from 4-9 pm at Finca La Principal, just off the old airport in Breña Alta. And of course, Santa Cruz de la Palma holds a big market on the first Sunday of every month. They're all good places to pick up local crafts.

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Flea Market, Santa Cruz de la Palma

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Puntallana Farmer's Market

Puntallana now has a Farmer's market, too. They hold it on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month, from 10 am to 2 pm. It's smaller than the market at Puntagorda or Mazo, but it's plenty big enough to get fresh veg for a week's self-catering.

And it's right beside St John's church, which is beautiful and well worth a visit.

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Puntagorda Market

Puntagorda is a village and municipality in the north west of the island. Every Saturday and Sunday, they have a farmers' market and craft fair in the Mercadillo, which is at the north of the village, near the Fayal picnic area.

Like most farmers' markets, the vegetables are fresher and cheaper than most supermarkets. There are also stalls selling organic wholemeal bread, sugar cane juice (with or without rum) cakes and meat. One stall just sold papayas.

The craft section had silver jewelry, hand-made furniture, leatherwork, and artwork prints.

Opening hours are Saturdays, 3 pm to 7 pm and 11 am to 3 pm.
The English version of the website is at http://mercadillo.puntagorda-lapalma.com/en.html?p=&lang=EN

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