Come to Triana Market before 3pm if you want to see a working food market, and after that only if you are coming to eat. Cross the Isabel II bridge from central Seville and the market is the first building on the Triana side, a short walk from El Arenal.
Mercado de Triana sits at Calle San Jorge, 6, on Plaza del Altozano, with close to 100 stalls of fish, meat, vegetables, bread, herbs and flowers across roughly 4,000 square metres. The same building also houses a cooking school and a tiny flamenco theatre, which is part of why it keeps going long after the stalls are shuttered.
In July, when Seville averages a daily maximum of 36.0°C, the morning stall window is also the only comfortable time to be outside. To round off a Triana morning, the ceramics centre on Calle Callao charges 2.10 euros and is about 100 metres away, while the Castillo de San Jorge beneath the market is free when it operates but closed for now.
What are Triana Market’s opening hours?
Mercado de Triana keeps two timetables. Its fresh-produce stalls open 9am to 3pm, Monday to Saturday, while the building and its bars run 9am to midnight on those days and 9am to 5pm on Sundays and holidays, according to Visit Sevilla. Around 100 stalls share some 4,000 square metres beside the Isabel II bridge.
Triana Market hours, stalls against bars
The food stalls trade Monday to Saturday until 3pm, with some variation stall by stall, and the fish stalls of Seville’s municipal markets do not open on Mondays. The building opens 9am to midnight Monday to Saturday and 9am to 5pm on Sundays and public holidays, according to Visit Sevilla.
Nine hours separate the two weekday closing times, and what fills them is the bar and restaurant side rather than the market side. A visitor arriving at 6pm finds a busy building with no fishmonger in it.
| What | Sunday and holidays | Monday | Tuesday to Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|
| The building | 9am to 5pm | 9am to midnight | 9am to midnight |
| Food stalls | Closed | Until 3pm, no fish | Until 3pm |
| Castillo de San Jorge hall | 9.30am to 2.30pm | 9.30am to 2.30pm | 9.30am to 2.30pm |
Getting there from the Cathedral side
On foot, the market is about 900 metres from Seville Cathedral as the crow flies: walk down through El Arenal to the river, cross the Puente de Isabel II, which everyone calls the Triana Bridge, and the market door is about 115 metres from the far end of it.
By bus, the San Jorge (Altozano) stop of TUSSAM line 43 is 27 metres from the entrance. The single ticket that TUSSAM charges is 1.40 euros, paid on board. Plaza de Cuba on metro line 1 is about 790 metres away, a 10-minute walk, and the T1 tram stop at Archivo de Indias is roughly 12 minutes on foot from the other bank.
From Seville airport straight to the market
Coming straight off a flight, the EA airport bus costs 6 euros single and terminates at Plaza de Armas, about 700 metres from the market in a straight line, on the opposite bank of the Guadalquivir. City tickets are not valid on the EA, so that fare is paid separately, and from Plaza de Armas the rest is a walk over the river.
What to buy and where to eat inside
The trading floor concentrates on fresh local produce: fish, meat, vegetables, bread, herbs and flowers, laid out along linear aisles and around two internal courtyards, with around ten fishmongers among them. It is a working plaza de abastos rather than a food hall built for visitors, which is what the 3pm closing time reflects. If you are only passing through, ham in paper cones and ready-cut fruit are sold to take away.
The bar side runs from breakfast cafés to rice houses, a fried-fish counter and a cheese and wine bar, and it is what keeps the building open until midnight. Two businesses inside are not retail at all: the Taller Andaluz de Cocina runs cooking classes with produce from the stalls, and CasaLa Teatro, set in a former butcher’s stall, programmes flamenco and theatre. For the tapas bars outside the market, tapas in Triana goes bar by bar.
Can you go into the Castillo de San Jorge
Beneath the market lie the remains of the Castillo de San Jorge, an Almohad fortress that housed the Inquisition tribunal in Seville from 1481. The present market reopened over the castle plot in 2001, and the excavated remains opened to the public in 2009, with reconstructed cells, audiovisual material and panels on the tribunal between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. When the site operates, admission is free and needs no booking.
For now the archaeological space is closed. Only the hall opens, as a tourist office, from 9.30am to 2.30pm every day, and that is the place to ask whether the castle has reopened. Its hours change with each use: the last time the city council opened it, as a sacred art exhibition space, it ran Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm.
When to go, and why Monday is the day to skip
A Tuesday to Saturday morning gets everything: the fish stalls are trading, which they are not on Mondays, and the building is on its full timetable rather than the Sunday one. With a mean daily maximum of 36.0°C in July on the AEMET record, the morning is also when the street outside is bearable, and the market and the heat shut down their good hours at roughly the same time.
Monday is the weak day for Triana as a whole. The fish counters are dark, and the Triana ceramics centre on Calle Callao, which charges 2.10 euros and keeps sixteenth-century kilns on its ground floor, is closed too; from Tuesday to Sunday it opens 10am to 8pm, about 100 metres from the market. The rest of the district, from Calle Pureza to Calle Betis, fits into a 1.7 km walk through Triana with what to see on the way, about 23 minutes on foot to Plaza de Cuba metro.
For a day built around free access, the market pairs with the sites covered in the guide to Seville’s free museums and how each one lets you in, and the Castillo de San Jorge joins that group whenever it is operating.
Frequently asked questions about Triana market hours
What time does Triana Market close?
Two closing times apply. The food stalls run Monday to Saturday from 9am to 3pm, while the building itself stays open until midnight from Monday to Saturday and until 5pm on Sundays and public holidays, according to Visit Sevilla. Fish stalls do not open on Mondays.
Is Triana Market worth visiting in the afternoon?
For eating rather than shopping. After 3pm the fish, meat, vegetable and flower stalls have closed, and what remains open is the bar and restaurant side of the building. Fresh produce needs a morning visit.
Can you visit the Castillo de San Jorge under Triana Market?
Not at the moment. The archaeological site is closed and only the hall opens, as a tourist office, from 9.30am to 2.30pm daily. When the site does operate, admission is free with no booking, and the staff in that office can tell you whether it has reopened.
How long do you need at Triana Market?
Around 4,000 square metres hold close to 100 stalls in linear aisles and two internal courtyards, so a full circuit is short. The variable is whether the visit includes eating, since the bar side operates on a different timetable from the stalls.
One address, two closing times, nine hours apart. Only the earlier one belongs to a market.