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El Rastro, Madrid

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There’s something for everyone at El Rastro, an outdoor flea market where vendors offer new and used goods from knickknacks to furniture. There are even specialized areas, such as Calle Fray Ceferino Gonzales, or street of the birds, where domestic animals and birds are sold. Calle San Cayetano, street of the painters, sells paintings, drawings, and art supplies, and Calle Carnero offers old, rare, and collectible books. The site has been featured in several movies, books, and songs. Using our online itinerary creator, Madrid attractions like El Rastro can form part of a personalized travel itinerary.

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By PngHop

We got here around 9am. Not crowded and lots of local crafts, souvenir, leather goods, clothing and food. We ended up spent all the cash and many vendors accepted credit cards. Around 11am, we...

We got here around 9am. Not crowded and lots of local crafts, souvenir, leather goods, clothing and food. We ended up spent all the cash and many vendors accepted credit cards. Around 11am, we... more »
By AmmRh

This used to be an old fashioned flea market now turned on a cheap market, with little to none stands offering quality products, and the few that do are sunken among the hundreds that don't. There...

This used to be an old fashioned flea market now turned on a cheap market, with little to none stands offering quality products, and the few that do are sunken among the hundreds that don't. There... more »
By Bdalglish81

I love markets but this wasn’t for me, it is just another flea market, not too many special items. Lots of clothes, souvenirs, jewellery, but not many unique or special or interesting. Jewellery...

I love markets but this wasn’t for me, it is just another flea market, not too many special items. Lots of clothes, souvenirs, jewellery, but not many unique or special or interesting. Jewellery... more »