A fish market learns to host culture

The round brick complex on Avenida de Navarra began with a completely different job. Municipal architect Marcelo Carqué Anyesa designed it as Zaragoza's new wholesale fish market, opened in 1960 near the Caminreal station and major road transport routes. When Mercazaragoza later centralised wholesale activity, the market lost its original purpose. Instead of demolishing it, the city adapted the building in 1986–1987, and the Centro Cívico Delicias opened to citizens in 1988. Look for the functional geometry that survives beneath the cultural use: the circular organisation, brick and protected architectural elements. The change is almost a diagram of neighbourhood evolution — logistics that once moved food becomes infrastructure intended to move culture and civic activity closer to residents.