The best Spanish shopping experience: Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga

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Before your holidays, we wrote this quick guide for your shopping experiences in Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid and Malaga. For every city, we found the best places for shopping, the traditional markets, the shopping malls, the flea markets and the different outlets.

Enjoy your shopping experience!

Madrid shopping experience:

• Shopping: Plaza puerta del Sol, Gran Vía, Calle Alcalá, Calle Montera, Calle Preciados, Calle Princesa, Calle Serrano
• Traditional markets: Mercado San Miguel, Mercado San Anton, Mercado San Fernando, Mercado De La Paz
• Shopping malls: El Corte Ingles 10% rebate with the card, ABC Serrano, Primark, Principe Pio Mall
• Flea markets: The Rastro
• Outlets: Las Rozas

If you want to read more on Madrid, check the article we wrote on the city: Real estate foreign investors are discovering Madrid

Barcelona shopping experience:

• Shopping: Passeig de Gracia, Plaza Catalunya, Avenida Diagonal, Born district
• Traditional markets: La Boqueria
• Shopping malls: El Corte Ingles 10% rebate with the card, Diagonal Mar, Gran Via 2/Hospitalet de Llobregat, Pedralbes Center, Maremagnum
• Flea markets: Els Encants
• Outlets: La Roca

If you want to read more on Madrid, check the article we wrote on the city: Barcelona real estate market is rising

Malaga shopping experience:

• Shopping: La Calle Larios, Plaza Mayor
• Traditional markets: Mercado Central de Atarazanas
• Shopping malls: Muelle Uno, Larios Centro, Vialia Centro Comercial
• Flea markets: Mercado Central de Atarazanas
• Outlets: Factory Outlet Malaga

If you want to read more on Madrid, check the article we wrote on the city: Malaga is always a place for your dream house

Alicante shopping experience:

• Shopping: Rambla de Méndez Núñez
• Traditional markets: Mercardo Central
• Shopping malls: El Corte Ingles 10% rebate with the card, Centro Comercial Plaza Mar 2, Centro Comercial Panoramis, Centro Comercial Gran Via, Centro Comercial Puerta de Alicante
• Flea markets: Mercardo Central
• Outlets: The Outlet Stores Alicante

If you want to read more on Madrid, check the article we wrote on the city: Alicante: the Spanish pearl

Many very well-known international brands are Spanish! Buy those even cheaper in Spain.

• Zara
• Zara Home
• El Corte Ingles
• Camper
• Pull & Bear
• Massimo Dutti
• Springfield
• Sfera
• Stradivarius
• Desigual

Our tip: Don’t forget to ask for a refund of VAT if you are coming from outside Europe and buying for more than 100€.

Our tip: Don’t forget to ask for your 10% rebate on your next purchase at El Corte Ingles if you are an international traveller. You have El Corte Ingles shops in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Alicante and Marbella.

Discover other shopping and holidays tips on all the Spanish Costas in our useful infographic:

Know everything on the Spanish Costas: Airports, AVE stations, Cities and villages, shopping places: Traditional & Flea markets, Outlets and shopping malls. What should you visit? The Unesco sites, the parks for kids, the green parks, the golf courses, the universities and last but not least the top beaches. Check our infographics.

If you are booking a city trip in Spain, don’t forget our nice ePostcards we wrote on Madrid, Barcelona, Alicante and Malaga:

Here are other interesting sources for shopping in Spain:

• Find the shopping addresses in the Spanish cities published by the official Tourist office in Spain
• Find the shopping addresses from Lonely Planet, the famous travel guides
• Allways check to tourist office of any of the city you will visit. If you search on our site (top right column of this paper) for any city, you will find the article we wrote on it and most of the time at the bottom of the article you have a link towards the tourist office of the city.

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Stéphane

Senior analyst and strategist at HTBIS

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