| Every town and village has a weekly market.You can
buy clothes and pottery and food and drink and many other
items so they are well worth going to.They start early
in the morning and last til around lunch time.If you
want to get all the bargains and best items you are best
going early.You can go early and eat your breakfast there
as there will probably be one stand selling coffee and
snacks etc. Most of the food will be locally grown and
you will see farmers with woven baskets.I recomend buying
things that are expensive back home.Fruits etc. |
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Buy some local things like
cheeses and honey,olives,dried peppers and tomatoes and
hams.When you want to buy some
cheese you can taste it before buying it.There are also
second hand markets which are popular on the Costas.Do
buy fresh fish from local fresh fish market normally
held once a week on docks or local square.Spain has great
tasty local fish. |
| Top-quality Spanish mountain ham, or jamón Serrano,
is considered a treat by food-lovers all over the world,
and when the holiday season begins, sales rocket. Visit
your local hypermarket and you’ll probably see so many
hams that you’ll wonder who is going to buy them all.
While we will probably sneak into the kitchen during
the holidays for a piece of cheese or nibble chocolates,
most Spaniards would probably rather go and carve a few
pieces of ham. |
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Cava was made for the first time in 1872 by Josep Raventos
in the town of Sant Sadurni d’Anoia, in the valley of
the River Anoia, in the province of Barcelona, in the
autonomia of Catalunya. Some 95 per cent of all Cava
wine comes from Catalunya, and some 75 per cent of that
is made in and around the town of Sant Sadurni. However,
because Cava also comes from elsewhere, we are forbidden
to use the geographical name. Hence there is no de origen;
just for Cava.
It was Champagne that gave the world its thirst for bubbles,
and the world has never been able to get enough since.
Catalunya, however, has an independent spirit and prefers
to fulfil its own needs rather than import them – even
from the rest of Spain. Thus, once the bars and cafés
of the major cities (especially Barcelona) began to ring
with the sound of popping corks, the winemakers of Barcelona
province turned their minds to the matter of sparkling
wine. |
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