Valencia's Mercat Central has stood on the same site for roughly 900 years. The outdoor market here dates to the Moorish era, when the city was called Balansiya. It was a place of commerce and desperation. Peasants came looking for work; some, unable to feed their children, quietly left them among the stalls, hoping a trader might take them in.

The current building arrived in 1928, after King Alfonso XIII broke ground in 1910. It is the largest fresh produce market in Europe: a vast Modernist structure of wrought iron, stained glass and a soaring skylight that earns it the nickname the Cathedral of Food.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace nine centuries of Valencian life here, from the Moorish market to the Inquisition-era executions staged just outside, revealing how this square became both the city's economic engine and its most public stage for power.