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 let’s stop talking, let’s search!
Lost and Found, the most awaited one
Your quarterly declaration of love for secondhand clothing. 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 generally installed at the Estación de Francia or at the Moll de la Fusta. But its next edition, for example, is in the Antigua Fábrica Estrella Damm and others have been held in the Plaza del Mar, on the same 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 the vintage market
With almost fifteen years of monthly flea market behind it, the Flea is another of the deans of the treasure trove of Barcelona. Founded in 2007, they have a clear motto: “One person’s trash is another person’s other.” They organize two monthly fixed 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, you can make a monthly visit to look for hidden treasures, but also to get rid of them for very little money: installing a stop for a day in these 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 flea markets in the city. Now, from Two Market they manage various proposals that, alone, serve to fill closets and cupboards of the treasure hunters of the second hand. On the one hand, Nau Bostik organizes the weekly Booom Market. Every Friday, free ticket to “the popup with tons of secondhand clothes and items”. On the other hand, monthly, the Tot a 1€ de l’Ovella Negra, where the mythical bar of Poblenou is full of bargains. And while other pop-ups fell by the wayside before the pandemic, Two Market’s offerings, concentrated on the right side of town, make for a good nostalgic tour.
📅 Boom Market, every Friday; Tot at 1€, once a month.
📍 Nau Bostik and l’Ovella Negra del Poblenou.
Riera Baixa Market, the classic of classic clothing
The Riera Baixa is one of those vestiges of other Barcelonas, the one in which one went to Tallers street to buy records or to the surroundings of Plaza Universidad to look for old books. In the short street of Riera Baixa are concentrated, spontaneously and sought after at the same time, a good handful of second-hand clothing stores that make you feel in London who stroll through those two hundred meters of Raval. Their stores are not run by young people looking to get rid of old things, but by true professionals of the second-hand market, who know how to 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 held every Saturday in which all the stores, some with decades of history, bring their goods 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.
Revolution
In a neighborhood as hipster as Gracia, could not miss in this list a store that was in its streets. Revolution’s clothing has American overtones and we have a theory that, not being particularly well known, quality garments remain largely untouched. Clothing from le coq sportif, for example, and Ray Ban glasses at very very decent prices.
📍 Carrer de Verdi, 80