2023-10-06 11:44:27
Cordobans and visitors pass by incessantly Corredera Square in Córdoba. However, there are many curious and even chilling facts that dot its history. Let’s start!
It is the only quadrangular main square of Andalusia, The current porticoed construction dates back to the XVII (1683). Specifically, it is a design by the architect Antonio Ramos Valdes -at the request of the mayor Francisco Ronquillo Briceño- but there is evidence that in the 14th century it was an irregular plaza.
La Corredera – which is believed to have been built on the city’s ancient Roman Circus – It is much more than a meeting place for Cordobans and tourists who crowd the tables of the numerous establishments located in its arcades.
Its name directly alludes to the time when they were celebrated there. bullfights, the last one took place there in 1846. From then on the National Festival moved to the Plaza de Toros de Los Tejares.
It was also one of the places designated in Córdoba during the Inquisition for the feared autos-da-fe and executions. According to existing data, the last execution carried out took place in 1838.
The building currently occupied by the market It was built to be a prison and the magistrate’s house, until in 1835 the prison was moved to the Alcázar of the Christian Monarchs.
Also It became a hat factory and grace of businessman José Sánchez Peña, who installed the city’s first steam engine. And from 1873 when it was converted into supply market.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the writer Pio Baroja masterfully described the commercial and artisanal environment that permeated every corner of the Plaza in his work. The fair of the discreet.
At the end of 1981, the Plaza de la Corredera was declared a Historical-Artistic Monument and was subjected to a complete restoration process that began in 1986 and ended in 2001.
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