The San José Market, popularly known as La Boquería, is a municipal market located on Barcelona's Rambla.

As well as being a place where you can buy all kinds of fresh produce, it is also a tourist attraction.

It has a surface area of 2583 m² with more than 300 stalls offering a wide variety of local and exotic products, both to individual shoppers and to the city's restaurateurs.

The market was inaugurated in 1840, but its origins are in the open air, outside the gates of the old city, on the Pla de la Boqueria esplanade, where hawkers and farmers from nearby villages and farmhouses used to set up shop to sell their produce before the city's first walls were breached. This market was held outside the city walls in order to save the tax on the entry of goods.

Before the market, the convent of San José stood on the same site. In 1586 the Discalced Carmelites founded the convent on the site where the market is today.

As the Rambla gained importance as an urban promenade in the 18th century, it was deemed necessary to move the butchers' shops out of its route and they were moved, still very close by, inland, next to the garden of the convent of San José, which, along with other convents in the area, was assaulted and burnt down during the anticlerical riot instigated and led by some liberal politicians in Barcelona on Saint James' Day (25 July) in 1835.

After the fire, the convent was suppressed, the building was expropriated from the Carmelites, demolished and a square with large columns surrounded by porches was built in its place, which was to be the largest in Barcelona. It was decided to move the market inside temporarily, but in the end it was to be its definitive location. The roofing work began on Saint Joseph's Day 1840.