The Mercat Central de Reus dedicates nearly 4.000 m2 to the sale of fresh produce and to retail, spread over a hundred stalls occupied by more than 50 businesses. Two days a week it hosts the Marchants market, which unfolds around it on Mondays and Saturdays.

The grounds on which it stands were the seat of the Teatre Circ, a small summer theater surrounded by gardens that was inaugurated in 1901 by the recreational society El Círcol. The City Council acquired it in the 30s. XX and demolished it soon after with the aim of promoting the creation of a new, modern and hygienic market. The initial project, from 1934, was by the municipal architect Antoni Sardà, but although the works began, they were not completed in time. They resumed in 1944 and in 1948 the building was opened to host the II Exhibition Fair.

The following year it was inaugurated as a market and began to function bringing together all the activity that until then took place in Plaça del Mercadal, Plaça del Castell and the surrounding streets. There was a space intended for retail and another for wholesale, with places for wholesalers. The move of the wholesalers to the Mercat del Camp in 1987 brought about the modernization of the interior of the Central Market after almost 40 years, which was carried out without touching the monumental structure of the building.