Summer Craft Market in Jávea

Handmade products

What makes this market so special is that everything they sell is handmade. Think pottery, paintings, woodwork, crocheted toys and flowers, gnomes and dolls, papier-mâché figures, painted stones and jewelry. At some stalls, this also allows you to personalize products or have them customized. It is also possible to place special orders.

Annual market with new stalls every week

The concept was first held in 2013. Since then, the market has grown to attract more and more visitors each year. The range of stalls changes weekly. The Jávea/Xàbia Feria de Artesania puerto Facebook page shares photos each week of the expected stalls later that week.

Tip: view an overview of all weekly markets on the Costa Blanca

Shopkeepers Association & Amata

This summer market is organized by Javea’s shopkeepers association in collaboration with Amata, which stands for Asociación para la Mejora de la Artesanía Tradicional y Actual. Translated in Dutch to: Association for the Improvement ofTraditional and Actual Crafts.

In other words: Amata is primarily interested in promoting and improving artisanal work in Spain, keeping traditions alive and maintaining quality.

“Of course the artisans like authentic crafts. It’s their job. But it is not a profession born out of necessity: they chose it because they love working with their hands, mastering their tools, perfecting their techniques and using their creativity to make each subsequent piece more original, decorative and/or neat.

Although their work gives them great satisfaction, it is becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet producing and selling handicrafts as they compete with cheaper items made in a factory or imported from other countries.”

Source : www.amata.es

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This article was last updated on June 1, 2025.