Mercat de la Boqueria has been doing business on La Rambla since 1217, when the first documents record meat tables set up near the old city gate. That's not the building you see today, of course. The current iron-and-glass structure came later, built on the rubble of the Convent of Sant Josep after rioters torched it on St James' Night in 1835. The city seized the land and, eventually, a market took root where monks had prayed.

The name itself is telling. "Boqueria" most likely comes from "boc," the Catalan word for billy goat, a reminder of what was being sold here long before the jewel-coloured fruit stalls arrived.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the market as a waypoint through the neighbourhood's layered history, connecting its medieval street-trading origins to the wider story of El Raval, the Gothic Quarter's Roman foundations, and eight centuries of Jewish life in the city just a short walk away.