Mercat dels Encants
I absolutely love these markets. This is like a shopping centre version of a street market. There are high-end premises that are enclosed, with actual doors - some a couple of meters wide, and some perhaps 4m or even 6m wide, large lockers for storage where the shopkeeper can store there stuff and bring it out when they open at the start of the day. And then down the bottom, a large flat area where there is a more normal "street market" setup on the ground, and on trestle tables and so forth. Unlike a street market, though, it's all in this amazing airy space with a mirrored ceiling above it and the light shining in around the edges and the breeze blowing through.
I really wish all shopping centres were like this: vibrant and dynamic and friendly. Much more supportive of local shopkeepers and not any of the boring sameness of seeing every damn chain store you've ever seen, just arranged in a random order. It also isn't set in amongst acres of ugly carparking.
Lots of walking around Barcelona today. We walked to the Sagrada Familia for when it opened at 9:00, and then we walked to the Torre Agbar (including walking for the best part of an hour around the Mercat des Encants, where I took this photo). That was enough for us, so we caught the tram back to our apartment and then later we went out and walked around a whole lot of the Gothic Quarter, etc.
Tomorrow: Montserrat
Status: Footsore.