Description
We continue the itinerary with a space continually mentioned by Muñoz Molina in his novel The Polish Horseman, the Food Market. His father comes here every morning at dawn to sell the products hard-picked in the family garden. (…) “It would have already been dawn, his father would be in the market arranging the wet and shiny vegetables on the marble counter, and perhaps he would wonder from time to time where he was, to which of those cities he wanted to go to as a teenager his wandering job as an interpreter had taken him.” (…) Antonio Muñoz Molina. The Polish Horseman. Although since 1878 there was great concern to provide the city with a food market to avoid street sales, it was not until 1933 that the Linares architect Luis Casanova Vila was commissioned to build it, finishing its construction in 1935. The Food Market, in a rationalist style, was built in the place where the Convento de Nuestra Señora de la Coronada, from the 16th century, had previously been.
