While staying in a hotel nearby on a rest day from the Camino, we found a laundromat down the…read morestreet and were on the prowl for some breakfast. What a great surprise it was to find the Mercado right on the same street! We bought a baguette, cheese, and tomatoes from the vendors and went to town. Delicious! If you also need some stuff from the supermarket, there's a Día right on the second floor, too! Score!

This cool market in the middle of Salamanca offers everything from fish, fresh produce, home made…read moresausages, cheese, wine and olives. Although I couldn't buy much to take home with me because there are pretty strict laws about organic material going into the US, I enjoyed the sights and smells and even had a little wine and cheese snack. If you're in the area for awhile and plan on consuming some things (instead of taking them back home to other countries), I suggest walking around to see all the different offerings and prices. It was not too busy and people were not pushy at all. There are so many beautiful displays of foods like all the different cured meats and all the different kinds of olives and spices.