Zaragoza Turismo
Zaragoza Ciudad de Compras
Zaragoza, referente comercial
Zaragoza is and has always been one of Spain´s greatest shopping cities. Halfway to practically everywhere, the city has been a crossroads and meeting point for trends and fashions, as well as an essential stopover for resting and obtaining supplies. As a result, Zaragoza has had a strong commercial vocation ever since it was first settled. A mere stroll down the city´s main streets will reveal to visitors the wealth and variety of Zaragoza´s stores. The city has also managed to strike the perfect balance between small, specialist traders and modern shopping centres and department stores, thus maintaining the area's longstanding tradition of trade while welcoming the influence of the modern market.
Commerce is of vital importance to Zaragoza, which has around 15,000 retail units that create jobs for 53,000 people in the city, 11,000 of whom are self-employed, making it the city´s top employment sector. The main feature of shopping in our city is that it offers excellent value for moneya very attractive incentive for consumers from the neighbouring Autonomous Communities. Moreover, because Zaragoza is polycentric, it has become the leading shopping city of the north-east of Spain. Shopkeeper associations have come in various legal forms throughout Zaragoza´s history, starting with the early societies of Roman times, followed by the mediaeval trade associations, the modern-day Hermandades or federations and the nineteenth-century -tertulias y círculos mercantiles- (merchant circles and assemblies), right up to the shopkeeper associations of the first third of the twentieth century.
Trade associations have undergone many changes over the last twenty years. Nowadays, area associations represent commercial and services units according to their geographical location, covering issues such as construction work on shopping streets, parking problems, traffic, security, cleaning, sales promotion, and commercial planning. The commercial sector therefore needed a representative legal base that would allow it to take part in Municipal District board meetings, where matters that affect the location of commercial establishments are debated. Trading associations and associations to provide sector services complement the activity of tradeassociation members and deal with the problems that arise in the physical surroundings of stores. Since 1992, ECOS has set up 28 areas associations in Zaragoza, all of which form part of the Foro de Comercio.
Commerce is of vital importance to Zaragoza, which has around 15,000 retail units that create jobs for 53,000 people in the city, 11,000 of whom are self-employed, making it the city´s top employment sector. The main feature of shopping in our city is that it offers excellent value for moneya very attractive incentive for consumers from the neighbouring Autonomous Communities. Moreover, because Zaragoza is polycentric, it has become the leading shopping city of the north-east of Spain. Shopkeeper associations have come in various legal forms throughout Zaragoza´s history, starting with the early societies of Roman times, followed by the mediaeval trade associations, the modern-day Hermandades or federations and the nineteenth-century -tertulias y círculos mercantiles- (merchant circles and assemblies), right up to the shopkeeper associations of the first third of the twentieth century.
Trade associations have undergone many changes over the last twenty years. Nowadays, area associations represent commercial and services units according to their geographical location, covering issues such as construction work on shopping streets, parking problems, traffic, security, cleaning, sales promotion, and commercial planning. The commercial sector therefore needed a representative legal base that would allow it to take part in Municipal District board meetings, where matters that affect the location of commercial establishments are debated. Trading associations and associations to provide sector services complement the activity of tradeassociation members and deal with the problems that arise in the physical surroundings of stores. Since 1992, ECOS has set up 28 areas associations in Zaragoza, all of which form part of the Foro de Comercio.
