Rastro Lab

El Rastro de Madrid, street by street

The 2,186 stalls of the flea market and the 879 premises on its streets, with the goods the city authorizes on each one. From the city register, not from word of mouth.

Wall clocks hanging at a stall in El Rastro de Madrid

Every street is a different trade

El Rastro is not one uniform block: the city register splits the goods street by street. If you are after something specific, which end you come in by matters a great deal.

The 18 streets of El Rastro, one by one · The 13 trades and where each one concentrates

A street of El Rastro de Madrid, with musicians and stalls

And the rest of Madrid

El Rastro is the city's biggest street market, not its only one: 33 street markets with 3,683 stalls, 45 municipal market halls and 1,396 licensed street-vending pitches, in three separate city files.

And what is published nowhere

Three things that are in city documents, but scattered across a bulletin, a thousand-page fiscal ordinance and a layer of a map service. Read and worked out here.

The rules of El Rastro, with their sources · The 119 premises, one by one

Who we are building it for

A trader seen from behind in his chair, at El Rastro de Madrid If you come to El Rastro

Find what you are looking for

  • The map by trade: where the antique dealers are, where the books are, where the junk is.
  • What is sold on each stretch, according to the city register and not to word of mouth.
  • The shops on each street, with their shopfront and whether the census has them open or deregistered.
  • A page per street and another per trade, with the figures and where each one comes from.
Stockings hanging at a clothes stall in El Rastro de Madrid If you have a business here

Your premises is already here

  • The 879 premises on the streets of El Rastro, taken from the city council's own census.
  • Yours appears with the shopfront and the number on file there, even if they are out of date.
  • If something does not add up, we correct it citing the source.
  • Being able to edit your own entry is the idea, but it does not exist yet. Sign up and we will let you know.
A trader in a cap among the crowd at El Rastro de Madrid

We will tell you when there is more

No noise. One notice when we add something worth the trouble, and nothing else.