For a town of its size, Nerja is remarkably well served for shopping, from everyday groceries to boutiques you will not find anywhere else. Here is the practical version of where to go.
For supermarkets you are spoiled. Mercadona has two stores, the central one with its popular hot food corner and the Capistrano one with easy parking. Carrefour also runs two full stores plus two Express shops that stay open on Sundays, which saves you at least once every off-season. Lidl and Aldi sit across the road from each other, Mas in Torrecilla is bigger inside than it looks, Coviran corner shops are scattered all over town, and Iranzo is the place for international and hard-to-find products.
The Old Town is where shopping becomes a pleasure rather than an errand. The streets around the Balcón de Europa are lined with fashion boutiques, gift shops and local specialty stores, and browsing them is half the point of an afternoon in the center. The weekly street market on Tuesdays adds the classic Spanish market experience, with a flea market on Sundays in the same spot.
When you need a proper shopping day, Málaga is 45 minutes away with everything a big city offers, including IKEA for anyone furnishing a home here. Toward Granada, the Nevada shopping center is one of the largest in Spain and pairs nicely with a day trip inland.
We wrote this guide because our guests and buyers kept asking, and it keeps being the most read page on this site. If your questions about Nerja go beyond shopping, say a home or an apartment that earns its keep, the rest of the site is for you.
