In the 1880s, the city urgently needed a covered market for greater comfort and hygiene, as shown in the municipal minutes of 5 March 1884.

The design of the market project was presented in May 1942 by the architects Emilio Quiroga Losada and José Barreiro Vázquez and construction began in 1945.

During the construction of the new market, fish sellers and farmers set up their stalls in individual boxes next to the Burgo Bridge and Valentín García Escudero Square.

[9] The city's new two-floor covered market, designed by the municipal architect Emilio Quiroga Losada, was inaugurated on 20 January 1948.

[13] The complete renovation of the building was based on space and luminosity and included the construction of a two-floor underground car park.

[17] The market is a two-floor granite building, rectangular in plan and in the traditional Galician style with columns, arches and arcades.

The main staircase ends in a balcony on the first floor and allows for a lower passageway with three arches, the central one larger, which facilitate the transition to the stalls.

[31][32] On 25 November 2009, the sculptural group "A moza das galiñas" by the artist Cuqui Piñeiro, representing a woman feeding four hens and a rooster, was inaugurated in front of the main entrance to the market in Sierra Street.