The city's revived shopping street, Calle Independencia Sur, is traffic-free and lined with statues, sculptures and myriad curiosity shops. Check out the opulent Colonia Española Building , once a whites-only gentlemen's club, now a mini–department store. The agropecuario (vegetable market) is unusually located right in the city center.
A flea market inhabits Calle Honorato just off Independencia and all around are vendutas (small private shops or stalls), illustrating the recent economic relaxation.
