Hello mom!!!
Today we went to “Fira de Bellcaire”, also and more common known as “Els Encants Vells”.
“Els Encants Vells” is one of the oldest markets in Europe. Certain references date its origin in the fourteenth century, being a witness over commercial dynamism of our city, it’s more than just an antique market and peddling, orienting its centennial activity and apparent tentativeness to current demand, making available to the consumer an offer alternative to current models of distribution and trade, promoting the recycling. In this market you can found a lot of things, since new objects as clothes, fabrics, electrical equipment to second hand, used furniture, antiques, books and records…
The bad news is that this market will close in its actual place and it will be opened in another place. Most of people think that the market will lose its charm with this change.
We can find three parts in this market. This is one of the entries, where we can see some shops (one of the parts):
In another part of the market there are some stands:
And in the last part of the market, we find the objects on the floor, on a blanket or boxes…
Look!! We are near of “Plaça de les Glòries”, so we can see “Torre Agbar”, do you remember it?
We will miss this market. We’re waiting to see the new emplacement. Mom, can we come back here to visit it??
