The Plaza de Abastos or Central Market of Cádiz was designed by Torcuato Benjumeda.

It consisted of a neoclassical quadrilateral in the form of a Doric porticoed square, located on the site of the garden of the convent of Los Descalzos, now Plaza de la Libertad, which was disentailed in the 1830s.

During the mandate of Ramón de Carranza in 1928, the Sevillian architect Juan Talavera y Heredia carried out the transformation of the Plaza de Abastos. This was a project of the previous mayor, Agustín Blazquez.

Carranza limited himself to arranging for the works to be speeded up in order to avoid inconvenience, as well as to improve the hygienic conditions of the supply services under the jurisdiction of the town council. The historic market in the Plaza de la Libertad was inaugurated in 1838. Over the course of a century, improvements were hardly made.

Juan de Talavera, in charge of the work began on 11 December 1926, respecting the old structure with four-metre Doric columns. Work began on the exterior. The presence of cisterns still in use in the place where several of the new foundations were to be located caused delays in the execution of the work.

Once work began, the exterior area was completed on 1 November 1927 and the building was finished at the end of 1929.