Mercado del Leo (Lion Market), Girona

Mercado del Leo (Lion Market) is a work of the municipality of Girona included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.

The building responds to the need to centralize the entire range of food products in one space. It has a rectangular ground floor, with austere facades and four entrances, one on each side. It constitutes one of the few examples in Girona of official construction carried out with a fully avant-garde language, although its execution, in the midst of the post-war period, was mediated by the intervention of the municipal architect Gordillo Nieto, who masked the work with addition of decorative heraldic elements. The interior is distributed in different streets that host the traders' stalls. Windows and openings present shapes reminiscent of rationalist architecture.