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Cartagena’s Councillor for Commerce, Belén Romero, announced recently that as soon as this summer the 196 stalls of the Cabo de Palos street market could return to their original location, next to the Las Dunas Shopping Centre, once it has been fully refurbished and reopened.

 

Since November 2022, the Cabo de Palos street market, which is held every Sunday, has been at a temporary location between the Spar and Marina Center on Calle Brezo, an expanded location which allowed food trucks to be added to the market back in December 2023.

 

Now that they are almost ready to move back to their original location, however, more than half of the stallholders have declared that they would prefer to stay where they are, causing a rift in the local street vending associations.

 

“There are 111 stalls that do not want to move from where they are to their previous location,” said Councillor Romero. “There is division among them.”

 

She said she is now seeking to reach a resolution between the three groups representing the vendors – the Association of Street Trading of the Southeast, the Association of Sellers of Squares and Markets of Cartagena and the Association of Street Trading of the Region of Murcia – in order to finally decide whether or not the market will be moved back to Las Dunas or not.

 

Meanwhile, Cartagena City Council has renewed the trading licences for more than 400 stalls in the street markets scattered throughout the municipality, including Cabo de Palos, Zenit, El Algar, Los Dolores, Los Belones, Urbanización Mediterráneo, Islas Menores, El Bohío, Los Urrutias, Barrio Peral, La Aljorra, Pozo Estrecho, La Palma, Los Nietos, El Albujón, Isla Plana.

 

The summer markets of La Azohía, Los Urrutias, Islas Menores, Isla Plana and Los Nietos all begin starting from this July and run until mid-September. 

 

 

Image: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena