The Plaza de Santiago in Gáldar, with the church at one end and the old town around it, is one of the better squares in the north of Gran Canaria — and every other Sunday morning it fills with the island's growers. The Mercado Agrícola is a straightforward producers' market: fresh, local, and short on the tourist tat you get elsewhere.
What to expect. It returns on Sunday 6 September from 9:00 to 13:30 after taking August off, then runs fortnightly — 20 September, 4 October and 18 October are the dates that follow. The autumn editions add raffles of local produce baskets for shoppers, and tastings prepared by students on the town's catering and cookery training programmes. It's run by the council with the Gran Canaria farmers' markets association.
Practical bit. Gáldar is about forty minutes from Las Palmas along the north coast, and the market finishes early enough to leave the rest of the day free — the painted cave museum, the Cueva Pintada, is a few streets away, and the coast road on to Agaete is one of the island's best drives. A hire car is the way to do all of it.
