Municipal Market

The place to shop for fresh local produce, the Olesa Municipal Market has numerous stalls offering every kind of food: meat, fish,  handmade sausages, fruit and vegetables grown by the sellers, seafood, beans, poultry, and dried fruit, as well as precooked dishes prepared by catering businesses.

The Municipal Market is much more than a place to shop. It is a meeting place for the locals, for social interaction that contributes to the vitality of the municipality, with a wide variety of quality products, personalized treatment and the assurance of good service.

The market is involved in the social, festive and cultural life of the town, participating in the celebration of public events like the Carnival festival by organizing food tastings, where people can sample dishes prepared by the market shopkeepers.

The Municipal Market is located in a large building located in Olesa’s Plaça de Catalunya, that opens out onto all four sides of the square. Designed by the architect Jeroni Martorell i Terrats, the market was opened on October 1, 1932, and expanded forty years later (1972) with the construction of the adjoining building for the sale of fish. Since it was remodeled in 1993, it has a much more modern look, combined with the historic significance of a building that is listed among Catalonia’s Architectural Heritage sites.