Salamanca Market, Saturday street market in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Salamanca Market is an outdoor weekly market in the heart of Hobart, Tasmania, selling handcrafted goods, local produce, and artworks. It runs every Saturday along Salamanca Place, with dozens of stalls set up in the open air along the street.

A trial market with six stalls run by the National Council of Women opened on 6 November 1971; the market officially launched on 22 January 1972 with 12 stalls beside the silos at the end of Salamanca Place. It was initially seasonal, from four weeks before Christmas until Easter, and a winter market followed in 1975. By the 1980s it had expanded to 150 stalls, and the Salamanca Stallholders Association was formally established on 19 February 1987.

The market runs along Salamanca Place, a paved street lined with old sandstone warehouses that form a natural backdrop for the stalls. Visitors can talk directly with the makers, who present their own work in person.

Arriving early gives you the best choice, as popular stalls tend to sell out before midday. Because the market is entirely outdoors, it is worth checking the weather in advance and dressing accordingly.

Between 1987 and 2014, the Andean band Arauco Libre played at the market every Saturday, using siku pan pipes, quena flutes, bombos and charangos. Many members were Chilean political refugees who fled the Pinochet regime and settled in Tasmania in the late 1980s; the band's name refers to the Araucanian people of southern Chile and Argentina.