Navidad 2: Mercados de Navidad

In less than 48 hours I will be in Ireland. Madness. Anyhoo...

Remember I showed you the empty market stalls around the Mushrooms a few posts back? Well they've been up and running for the last week or so so I thought I'd show you around. This small market has stalls selling things reminiscent of the Fiesta de Naciones; jewellery and scarves and gifts, things like that. There is also a plant stall where up until today I saw cacti dressed as Santa Claus, guess they sold out of them. 

The stalls facing the road are selling sweets and cakes and breads, they were probably the most tempting of the lot. There’s a somewhat lacklustre live nativity scene where you can have a photo taken with Mary and Joseph which seemed to draw a crowd, for the kids mainly, and of course there is a festive train. Because why not.

The donkey appeared to be trying to tunnel his way out.

I don't know where it goes.

come to me

I had higher expectations for the larger artisan market in the Plaza Nueva but I was a little let down. Rather than being Christmassy at all, it just reminded me of the craft sections of farmer’s markets. Handmade jewellery, artwork, notebooks and leather goods seem to be the most popular things on display. Perfect if you have someone in their mid 40s and you can’t think of a present, but out of my price range mostly and not what I was hoping for at all.

they weren't getting much business to be honest

There is another market down near the river but I haven’t made it there yet, and I might not before I head home. I don’t know what I was looking for… maybe a more German kind of Christmas market? With hot chocolate and mulled wine? I was hoping to find some nice decorations to bring home. I suppose Sevilla is a summer city, they do sunshine and outdoors well, so to ask them to be as good at Christmas as they are at that would be a bit much. To have a look at some more traditional (to my mind anyway) Christmas markets in France look here.

So my search for some proper Christmas markets came to nothing, oh well. The beautiful red poinsettias and other decorations around the place are keeping up my Christmas cheer in Sevilla :)

festive

 Hasta pronto x