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Markets and pitches of Retiro

A single street holds 42.3% of the street selling in Retiro: Parque del Retiro concentrates 30 of the district's 71 pitches.

In all, 71 standalone pitches, no street market and 2 municipal market halls: 73 puntos selling on public streets, 5.1% of the city's pitches.

Where it falls in the city

The map, framed on Retiro: every point is a pitch, colored by what it sells (68 of the district's 71 can be placed; the rest carry no exact address), circles are street markets and squares are market halls. The rest of the city, dimmed. A tap on a market pins its card.

What is sold on the street

The 71 pitches of Retiro by type, in the colors of the map. The largest, ice cream and cold drinks, is 32.4% of the district and 12.9% of everything Madrid authorizes of that type.

  • Ice cream and cold drinks 23 · 32.4%
  • ONCE 14 · 19.7%
  • Confectionery and nuts 10 · 14.1%
  • Flowers and plants 5 · 7.0%
  • Churros and fried food 4 · 5.6%
  • Painters and caricaturists 3 · 4.2%

Of those 71, 67 are still authorized or on extension and the other 4 there are anulados on file. A pitch is a permit, not always an open stall.

The streets with the most pitches are Parque del Retiro (30), Avenida Ciudad de Barcelona (5) and Avenida Mediterráneo (4), of the 23 that appear in the file.

Street markets and market halls

Of the 33 street markets in the city dataset, none falls in Retiro; of the 45 municipal market halls, 2. Which is open now, with its hours, is on the map of Madrid.

No street market on a public street is on file in Retiro: the city dataset's 33 are spread across 16 of the 21 districts, and what there is here are standalone pitches, which is a different arrangement and a different permit.

Districts next door

The nearest by the center of their street selling, which is not the same as sharing a border.

About this data

City data (300615 for the pitches, 202105 for the street markets, 200967 for the market halls), checked on August 23, 2026. Of the 71 pitches of Retiro, 68 can be placed on the plan. The file writes the street without its particle, so it reads "Avenida Ciudad de Barcelona" here where the street index gives the full name. Where every figure comes from, in data.