Second hand markets are the main market for many. After a few years when flea markets boomed (with flea markets every day, on every corner), the scene has now stabilized, and a few of the city’s long-established flea markets are now offering to play one of the most fun games around: scavenger hunts.
With monthly, weekly and quarterly flea markets, we can fill the agenda with these alternative stores where, as the saying goes, some people’s trash is other people’s gold. So no more talk, let’s look!
If in addition to markets you are looking for stores to buy second hand clothes throughout the year, we have it too: guide to the best vintage stores in Barcelona.
Lost and Found, the most awaited
Your quarterly declaration of love for second hand clothes. The Lost & Found is one of the oldest second hand flea markets in Barcelona, and also one of the most anticipated. It is held every three months, four times a year, and its size, one of the largest, gives it the air of a major festival.
Although its location varies, it is usually installed in the Estación de Francia or in the Moll de la Fusta. But its next edition, for example, is in the Old Estrella Damm Factory and others have been held in the Plaza del Mar, on the beach of Barceloneta. Undoubtedly, one of the great moments to mark in the agenda to look for the luxury antiques of the year.
📅 Every three months. Next edition: 29/4.
📍 Estació de França, various spaces.
Flea market and Fleadonia, the dean of vintage.
With almost fifteen years of monthly flea market behind them, the Flea is another of the deans of vintage treasure in Barcelona. Founded in 2007, their motto is clear: “One person’s trash is another person’s trash”. They organize two fixed monthly markets. Fleadonia is held every first Sunday of the month in Salvador Seguí square (in front of the Filmoteca) and the Flea Market is every second Sunday of the month in Blanquerna square (Behind the Museu Marítim), and as in all these markets, one can make a monthly visit to look for some hidden treasure, but also to get rid of them for very little money: installing a stop for a day in these flea markets costs only 30 euros.
📅 Fleadonia, first Sunday of every mez; Flea Market, second Sunday of every month.
📍 Plaça Salvador Seguí and Plaça Blanquerna.
Two Market, a flea market to control them all.
Years ago, Two Market was one of the many second-hand markets in the city. Now,from Two Market they manage several proposals that, alone, serve to fill closets and cupboards of the treasure hunters of the second hand. On the one hand, in the Nau Bostik they organize weekly the Booom Market. Every Friday, free admission to “the popup with tons of second-hand clothes and objects”. On the other hand, monthly, the Tot a 1€ de l’Ovella Negra, where the mythical bar of Poblenou is filled with bargains. And although other pop-ups were left in the air before the pandemic, the offer of Two Market, concentrated on the right side of the city, serves to make a good nostalgic tour.
📅 Boom Market, every Friday; Tot a 1€, once a month.
📍 Nau Bostik and l’Ovella Negra del Poblenou.
Riera Baixa Market, the classic of classic clothing.
Riera Baixa is one of those vestiges of other Barcelonas, the one where you used to go to Tallers street to buy records or to the area around Plaza Universidad to look for old books. In the short street of Riera Baixa are concentrated, spontaneously and sought at the same time, a good handful of second-hand clothing stores that make you feel in London who stroll through these two hundred meters of Raval. Their stores are not run by young people eager to get rid of old things, but by true professionals of the second-hand market, who can tell you the exact year in which that jacket was designed. Riera Baixa made vintage fashionable before vintage was fashionable.
In this peculiar street a flea market is set up every Saturday in which all the stores, some with decades of history, bring their wares to the street. Classic clothes from the most classic stores every weekend in the heart of the Raval.
📅 Every Saturday.
📍 Carrer Riera Baixa, el Raval.
Fet al Born, the artisan market of the Borne.
The street fair that brings together artisans and merchants of the Born is held the last weekend of each month in the Paseo del Born, organized by the Association of Traders of Born – La Ribera. Throughout its two-day duration, Fet al Born always offers, on the one hand, a street market with stands of producers from the neighborhood, and on the other, free workshops and craft demonstrations, such as live painting, ceramics, music, pattern making, image consulting, among others, all organized by the participating artists.
📅l📍 Carrer Riera Baixa, el Raval.
Revolution
In a neighborhood as hipster as Gracia, could not miss on this list a store that was in its streets. Revolution’s clothing has North American overtones and we have a theory that, not being particularly well known, the quality garments remain almost untouched. Clothing from le coq sportif, for example, and Ray Ban glasses at very very decent prices.
📍 Carrer de Verdi, 80