Built in 1934 and named after the man who was president of the country at the time, the Abelardo L. Rodríguez Market was intended to represent a new ideal for a city market. It was designed by architect Antonio Muñoz, and features details of several architectural styles that were in vogue at the time, from Art Deco to Art Nouveau and Baroque. The market would become the city’s largest, part of the avant-garde ideals it strived for. Its stalls offered a wider variety of products than other markets, but most…
