Fifty pleasures are celebrated today with a meal of living in the same market is the feast of the Virgin of Carmen.
The Food Market is a landmark building Archena and much visited, especially on Saturday morning, where archeneros date fixed weekly in all neighborhoods and districts come from a few decades ago.
The Food Market opened in 1958 and still in 2008 from their jobs shipped products some of its founders.
Currently a dozen are open stalls and more days of competition, Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, add another 10 stalls inside the building.
This building, which this year celebrates its 50 anniversary will be restored soon preserving the oldest and unique and still a must by a large number of archeneros, especially on Saturday morning, the usual and daily merchants are joined by 80 or 100 more mobile stations that are situated around the Market.
In total, the municipal engineers estimate that about usually come from Monday to Saturday for their weekly shopping around 4,000 people.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Archena