Thanks for filling in some of the blanks for me, my wife and I are both from the United States, and although she lived in Spain for a while she was in Madrid, so we don't know the ins and outs of Catalan culture. It's wonderful how different the foods and their preparations can be, given their proximity to each other.

The earliest records of something being in that location, (public tables) although not an official market are from 1217. That puts the market at 795 years old.