"Market of Wonders"
El Mercado Maravillas, which translates to the "Market of Wonders," is located in the heart of Madrid's Tetuan neighborhood (metro stop Cuatro Caminos), and is the largest municipal marketplace in all of Europe. Roughly the size of a football field, the Mercado Maravillas is, as its name suggests, an wonderland for foodies and curiosity-seekers to get lost in. There is literally everything: fruit vendors, fish mongers, butchers, cobblers, bakers, seamstresses, sausage-makers, haberdashers, probably the freshest seafood in all Madrid, and a motley assortment of odds-and-ends vendors selling things like whole suckling pigs, bull testicles, beef snouts, sea urchins, whole atlantic tuna, ras al-hanout, and an mind-boggling variety of cured meats and cheeses.
