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The Sants Market, with Catalan Modernism style, was constructed in 1913 by the architect
Pere Falqués i Urpí, in some territories which, until that moment, was called Hort Nou (New Vegetable Garden).
With nearly 5,000 square metres of surface, the market level is rectangular and, like the same way as all the constructed markets in this epoch in Barcelona, its structure is metallic and is covered with bare brick wall. The Modernist touch is evident contributing to the façade, decorated on the basis of ceramic and bricks.
Its origins go back to the installation of some its first stalls in the Sant Crist street, in the same suburb of Sants. Later on, some documents are given testimony of the existence, towards 1876, of a small market, called Mercado de Huesca (Huesca Market).
At the end of the same century, specifically in 1897, Sants, until the moment an independent municipal, was added to Barcelona. From this moment on, the suburb suffered a great demographic increase that was made necessary for the construction of the present market, situated in the delimited block by the Sant Jordi, Sant Medir, Càceres and Daoiz streets.
Since its first inauguration, it has received different improvements, the most important being in 1990 and 1996.