Shopping in Girona

Most shops in Girona centre are small, especially in the Barri Vell, where all the shops seem to be boutique shops. You have to drive just outside of Girona (or get a bus) to find huge shops like Decathlon, Leroy Merlin, Bauhaus, and Ikea.

In Girona, most things can be bought on Amazon.es. It's just generally the convenient place to buy stuff. If ordering from outside the EU (from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com for example), you may need to pay import tax.

Where to buy...

Barbecues

• Carrefour. Avinguda de França, 42-44
• Artiflora Home and Garden, a garden centre just outside of Platja D'Aro https://www.artiflora.net/ca

Board games

• La Juganera. Carrer Nou, 4
• Zeppelin. Carrer de la Premsa, 2

Blu-tac

• Abacus sells its own brand of Blu-tac (pasta adhesiva reutilizable) for €2.10, which is about half the price of official Blu-tac. If you have an Abacus soci card, it's even cheaper at €1.95.

Books

• See Book shops in Girona

Cheese

• Cal Formatger sells local cheese

Comics

• Freakshow Store. Carrer de la Sèquia, 21
• Còmics 22. Carrer de les Hortes, 24, 17001 Girona

===Cumberland sausages===:

• The closest you can get is a ring sausage from Esclat

DIY stuff

• Casa Coll. Small hardware store. Rda. Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 51, 17002 Girona
• Servei estació. Carrer de la Sèquia, 20, 17001 Girona
• Leroy Merlin. Huge hardware store just outside Girona. Carrer Astúries, 66, 17003 Girona
• Bauhaus. Another huge hardware store just outside Girona. Parc Comercial Mas Gri

Elastic bands

• Abacus sells a wonderful 100 g packet of elastic bands of all different colours and sizes for €2.35.

Electrical tape

• Servei estació sells small rolls of electrical tape for around €2.50. Carrer de la Sèquia, 20, 17001 Girona

Eggs

• Eggs are usually cheapest at Bon Area

Fish

• Girona's indoor market El Mercat del LLeo has ten fish counters. They are all in the center of the market. We recommend you the cod counter Remei.
• El Corte Inglés has good fish too.
• La Sirena sells a wide variety of frozen fish
• Novavenda have good fish. They prepare also very good anchovies marinated in vinegar.
• In Palamos´s port you can buy very fresh fish (though more expensive) in a fish small market.

Focaccia

• Bravola is a focacceria that opened in 2025. €10–20. Carrer dels Calderers, 4.
• Puntual sells coca d’oli, which is a close substitute to focaccia.
• GiroPizza sells tasty focaccia, but it comes served filled. See https://giropizza.cat/focaccias
• Bartali serves a house focaccia, but some find it too similar to a white pizza.
• Ametller Origen sells tossini focaccia genovese but it is crumbly and has a flat taste.

Furniture

• Girona has an Ikea at Carrer Astúries 61, in front of Leroy Merlin.
• Girona also has an "espai de planificació" (Carrer de Joan Maragall, 21). You can go there, make an order, and then pick it up a few days later from the "punto de recogida" nearby (Carrer de Sant Joan Bta. la Salle, 38). The punto de recogida provides free trolleys to wheel your purchase to your apartment, but nothing is noisier and more embarrassing than wheeling one of the big Ikea trolleys through the streets of Girona.

French food

• Girona is only an hour drive from France, so it's easy to cross the border and stock up on French food

Fresh herbs and spices

• VIMET Girona may have basil and thyme outside the store in small pots. @vimetgirona. Carrer de les Ballesteries, 2
• Rosemary, thyme, and fennel can be found in the wild (forests, coast, Montjuïc)

Ham

• Don Jamón sells local ham

===Harissa paste===

• El Corte Ingles (see https://www.elcorteingles.es/supermercado/0110118017604739-dea-salsa-harissa-tubo-120-g)
• Carrefour, along the back wall
• You can also try at halal butchers, there are many in Salt

===Indian spices===:

• Tulsà is a dried fruit shop but they also sell spices. Carrer de Santa Eugènia, 165.
• Urban Spices is an hour drive from Girona. Ctra. del Mig, 193, 08907 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona

Italian food

• Bottega Toscana

Meat

• Novavenda
• The supermarket in El Corte Ingles
• El Mertcat del Lleo
• For cold-cuts, go to Novavenda or El Corte Inglés
• Jordi Vilarrasa in the municipal market at Olot has very good pork products
• Mas Bes dairy in Salitja (25-minute drive from Girona) does good meat. They also sell good cottage cheese and frozen yoghurt.
• Vendrell en Santa Coloma de Farners (30-minute drive from Girona)

Mexican food

• Dinastia Supermercado. Carrer del Riu Güell, N 113.
• Wuakal are based in Barcelona and ship for free across Spain. https://wuakal.com.

Sellotape

• For some reason, ===Leroy Merlin=== is the cheapest place to buy sellotape. They sell rolls of plastic sellotape for 50 cents, and rolls of paper tape for 88 cents. Look in the painting department.

  

  Sellotape at Leroy Merlin

Sports stuff

• Decathlon

Wine

• Club del Gourmet del Corte ingles sell and serve wines and delicatessen meats.

Wine on tap

• Morera Agrocomerç. Carrer de Palafrugell, 10
• Salart Vinoteca. They also do wine-tasting events. Carrer de la Rutlla, 164
• Vins Rovira. Carrer Sant Isidre, 52

Big stores on the outskirts of Girona

There are amazing, huge stores just on the outskirts of Girona, reachable by car, bus, or a one-hour walk. These stores sell everything you need but were unable to find in the tiny stores in Girona's centre.

In Parc Comercial Mas Gri:

• Decathlon (sells sports stuff)
• Bauhaus (DIY and home improvement store)
• Media Markt (sells electronics)

Elsewhere:

• Leroy Merlin (another DIY and home improvement store)
• El Corte Inglés (mainly sells clothes)

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  Decathlon in Girona
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  Inside Decathlon
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  Leroy Merlin
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  Bauhaus in Girona
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  Bauhaus in Girona

Supermarkets in Girona

See Supermarkets in Girona.

Bakeries in Girona

• Antiga Casa Bellsola is a long-established Girona bakery dating back to 1892, now with eight outlets around Girona. Good for bread, sandwiches, and croissants. A pa de kilo costs €2.35. Their orange juice is also good, but the coffee is not so much. https://www.antigacasabellsola.com.
• Casa Moner is another bakery chain. Great for xuixos (Catalan cream-filled pastry). However, the bread is expensive, so go somewhere else for everyday purchases.
• La Puntual is a local business with organic flours.
• Fleca Oriell is a famous bakery near Pont de Pedra that has been there since 1887. Outside, there's always a riddle written on a blackboard. Apparently, if you solve the riddle, you win breakfast? @flecaoriell
• Forn de Pa Boix

  

• Forn Can Biel is a bakery in nearby Fornells. They cook the bread in a wood oven. On Fridays, they use the oven to make pizzas.

Markets in Girona

Mercat del Lleó

The main fresh food market in Girona. Impresses foreigners. Sells meat, fish, cheese, bread, etc. Also has a stand selling magazines, a flower stand, etc. Open every day except Sunday. On Monday most stalls are closed because fishermen do not work in Sundays and so the fish counters have no fish to sell. Same for days after public holidays.

Stalls include:

Name	Stall numbers	Description
Fleca Boix	—	Traditional bakery. A pa de quilo costs €3.10.
Llegums Cuits Comas	60–63	Extremely popular cooked-legumes counter. They sell green beans, black-eyed peas, chickpeas, pasta, and more by weight. You take a number from the ticket machine and wait to be served.
Fruits i Verdures Aracell	—	Fruit and vegetable stall.
El Petit Productor	56–59	Local produce and artisan products.
Gironell Carnisseria		Butchers

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  Exterior of Mercat del Lleó
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  Exterior of Mercat del Lleó
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  Inside Mercat del Lleó

Outside the building is another market selling fruits and vegetables. The stalls begin to pack up and leave around 1 PM.

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  Fruit and vegetable market

More info:

• https://www.mercatlleo.cat (or https://web.archive.org/web/20250430133656/https://www.mercatlleo.cat if the website isn't working)
• https://www.mercatlleo.cat/parades for a list of all stalls
• https://web.girona.cat/comerc/mercatlleo
• https://web.girona.cat/documents/20147/63354/fullet_mercat_abastaments.pdf

Mercat de la Devesa

Fresh food market in la Devesa. The stalls sell fruit and vegetables, and there are trucks that sell things like cheese. A range of stalls, ranging from low-quality cheaper food (prices cheaper than anywhere else in Girona) to expensive higher quality food. Every Tuesday and Saturday from 9 AM to 1:30 PM, including public holidays. Saturdays have more stalls and more choice than Tuesdays. Some stalls lower their prices towards the end of the day.

• The Verdures Masón stall has good quality local food but a bit expensive

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  Mercat de la Devesa
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  Mercat de la Devesa

Bulk shops

• A Granel Shop is a store for buying bulk goods. Carrer de la Rutlla, 41, 17002 Girona
• Morera Agrocomerc is another good option for bulk shopping.

Organic shops

• Ametller Origen – A supermarket with a good selection of organic products.
• Veritas – Almost exclusively organic produce and grass-fed meats.
• BioBrots – A well-known organic store in Girona.

Asian shops

Girona doesn't have a Chinatown, but it has these shops:

• Honglai – Carrer Bisbe Sivilla, 2, 17005 Girona
• Fruteria Autoservei (Small Asian fruit store). Av. de Sant Francesc, 3, 17001 Girona

Fruteria Autoservei

Inside Fruteria Autoservei

• Supermercado Chino Girona. Carrer de la Mare de Déu dels Àngels, 28, 17005 Girona

Sundays

Most shops in Girona are closed on Sundays. These shops are open:

• Bon Area is open until 1:30 pm or 2 pm, depending on the Bon Area
• Condis is open until 11 pm

Clothes shops in Girona

• Pepco: Polish chain, it's a bit like Primark but much smaller. Sell mainly clothes. Carrer Bisbe Lorenzana, 36, 17002 Girona
• Espai Gironés in Salt has a lot of clothes shops. For example, there is a *Primark. Huge shop with cheap prices. Espai Gironès, Camí dels Carlins, 10, 17190 Girona

Women's clothes shops

• Bershka
• Zara
• Stradivarius

Quirky shops in Girona

• Flying Tiger: A Danish chain that sells fun and unusual items like novelty mugs, notebooks, and small toys. People often go there just to look around, as the store is designed to be visually appealing and inviting. Many visitors end up buying a small souvenir or gift, even if they didn’t plan to. Personally I hate it, and I try my best never to enter. Carrer de Joan Maragall, 38, 17002 Girona
• Normal: Another Danish chain in the same style as Tiger. Like Tiger, and a labyrinth, you enter, then have to go walk through the whole shop before you can to leave. Sells cosmetics and food. Carrer de Joan Maragall, 31, 17002 Girona
• Ale-hop: Spanish chain that sells quirky, fun, and relatively cheap products lke mini fans, disco balls, notebooks, sunglasses, dancing cactuses, and electronic memory games. Carrer de Sta. Clara, 19, 17001 Girona, and there is also another in Girona train station.

Lifestyle shops in Girona

• Natura is a lifestyle/gift shop with an ecological theme. It sells stuff like socks, scarfs, slippers, handbags, clothes, jewellery, candles, incense sticks, hand cream, mugs, flasks, tiny Buddha statues, and photo frames. Handy if you need to buy a small cheap gift for someone.

Fancy dress shops in Girona

• Busquets is a shop for costumes and party decorations, such as wigs, makeup, and hats. In October, the shop fills with decorations for Halloween. The shop was founded by Emili Busquets Portulas (@busquetsportulas) in the site of a former toy shop called Joguines Mili. Emili Busquets is son of Benet Busquets and Emília Portulas, founders of the well-known Supermercat Busquets, which opened in 1975 and closed in 2015. Plaça Marquès de Camps, 5.

Espai Girones

There is a shopping mall just outside Girona called Espai Girones. It's a 1-hour walk from Girona or 30 minutes by bus. It has shops, a cinema, food court, restaurants, bowling, and free parking.

Buying second-hand in Girona

See Buying and selling second-hand in Girona