Why the Puerto Cruz Rastro merits top five stars
The Puerto Cruz Rastro Flea Market and municipal Mercadillo is a real attraction of Tenerife. In Winter at least...
Getting to the Puerto Cruz Market with its second hand sales by Titsa bus
Drive to the shopping mall by Titsa number 381 as depicted below. Fetch it
outside Mc Donalds at the Lago Martianez, by Plaza Charco, by the garden beach Jardin, or outside the Puerto Bus Station. The Market Complex is marked
Puerto de la Cruz Mercado on its front. It has a new Hipperdino
Supermarkt on the ground floor, a florist and shops that offer cheap, colourful dresses and the like. Find teas and spices as well as a pharmacy and toilets there.
The butcher on the first floor is where I prefer to buy meat. Then, there are fruit and vegetable stalls nearby.
People also consume Tapas as well as pastries there while watching the world go by below in the huge indoor yard.
A once weekly Saturday market for its amazing used and antique goods in particular was soon not enough. It warranted an additional Wednesday by popular demand.
Now, special buses even bring tourists from Tenerife South.
The remarkable set-up of this Tenerife shopping enclave.
It wouldn't meet the standards of a chic mall, but people are much at ease in its Bohemian surroundings where high class dealers mix in. Tourists and locals alike sip their drinks and coffee on the outskirts of the many stalls that are arranged in any odd ways.
By the way, let yourself be surprised by other entertainment surprises in Winter as well as at times of events like Halloween.
Escalators flank the hall. They connect open galleries on two stories which include a most surprising rooftop market.
Christmas 2024 with a peculiar nativity scene by sculptures at the Rastro Puerto de la Cruz . Depicted are Joseph and an empty-handed Mary. She was not holding baby Jesus in her arms before the day of the birth of Christ.The beer tent socializing on the sunny Rastro rooftop
This has almost become a ritual for many of the tourists of Puerto de la Cruz on a Saturday morning.
Anything goes from Retro and vintage to daring designs and fantasy art. Often, there's strong evidence that Tenerife is a leading spot in Spain for artistic and outrageous carnival design. This kaleidoscope of treasures invites exploring with the thrill of a bargain hunt.
I admire a friend who never loses patience to find her lucky dip of clothes with four items for Euro 1 in jumbled-up heavy heaps of clothes on a long table. My arm would fall off.
By the way, this particular spot is a reason to be early and big crowds in the narrow alleys by the walls can become hurdles.
Address and opening times of the Puerto Cruz Rastro.
- Location: Avenida Blas Pérez, 4
near Barranco San Felipe on top of Playa Jardin - Tel: 922 38 61 58
- Opening Times: Saturdays and Wednesdays from about 8.30 in the morning to 2 p.m.
- Best day: On Saturdays when all 140 stalls are put up
- Free parking opposite the complex as well as underground for those with proof of shopping
- Information for potential sellers at mercadomunicipal.net/contacto
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