Square, Plaza sights in Spain
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Avenida del Mar
Cross Avenida Ramón y Cajal to the Plaza de la Alameda and a marble walkway, Avenida del Mar, strung with crazed sculptures by Dalí, leads you down to the beaches, backed by the long, pedestrian Paseo Marítimo.
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Plaza de la Trinidad
The Plaza de la Trinidad has a couple of good tapas bars.
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Placeta de San Miguel Bajo
Placeta de San Miguel Bajo has lively café-restaurants.
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Plaza de las Tendillas
The main square of modern Córdoba is Plaza de las Tendillas, 500m north of the Mezquita.
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Plaza San Juan de Dios
Broad Plaza San Juan de Dios is surrounded by cafés and dominated by the imposing neoclassical Ayuntamiento built around 1800.
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Ses Voltes
Ciutadella's pedestrian walkway, Ses Voltes (The Arches), has a vaguely North African flavour, and is lined with glamorous shops and boutiques, restaurants and smoky bars.
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Plaza de Santo Domingo
On the fringes of León's old town (also known as the Barrio Gótico), Plaza de Santo Domingo is home to the Ayuntamiento which occupies a charming Renaissance-era palace.
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Plaza de Santa María del Camino
The Plaza de Santa María del Camino (also known as Plaza del Grano) feels like a cobblestone Castilian village square and is overlooked by the Romanesque Iglesia de Santa María del Mercado.
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Ayuntamiento
Plaza de San Francisco has been Seville’s main public square since the 16th century. The southern end of the ayuntamiento (town hall) here is encrusted with lovely Renaissance carving from the 1520s and ’30s.
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Plaza del Pilar & Plaza de la Seo
In Zaragoza's old town, just south of Río Ebro, is Plaza del Pilar and its eastward continuation, Plaza de la Seo. Together, these two squares form a 500m open space and are flanked by important buildings and historic monuments.
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Alameda Principal
The Alameda Principal, now a busy thoroughfare, was created in the late 18th century as a boulevard on what were then the sands of the Guadalmedina estuary. It's adorned with old trees from the Americas and lined with 18th- and 19th-century buildings.
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Plaza de América
On Plaza de América, at the southern end of Parque de María Luisa, is a large flock of white doves (they'll clamber all over you if you buy an around €2 bag of seed from vendors) and two interesting museums, the big Museo Arqueológico and the Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares.
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Plaza Mayor
At the northeastern end of the old town is the beautiful and time-worn 17th-century Plaza Mayor. Sealed off on three sides by porticoes, this sleepy plaza is home to a bustling fruit and vegetable market on Wednesday and Saturday. On the west side of the square is the superb late-17th-century baroque old town hall.
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Plaza Mayor
The shady Plaza Mayor is the nerve centre of old Segovia, lined by an eclectic assortment of buildings, arcades and cafés and an open pavilion in its centre. It's also the site of the catedral and the tourist office. The road connecting Plaza Mayor and the aqueduct is a pedestrian thoroughfare that locals know simply as Calle Real.
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Puerta de Carlos V
The Old Town is surrounded by massive fortress walls pierced by two ancient gates: the Islamic Puerta de Almocábar, which in the 13th century was the main gateway to the castle; and the 16th-century Puerta de Carlos V . Inside, the Islamic layout remains intact, and its maze of narrow streets now takes its character from the Renaissance mansions of powerful families whose predecessors accompanied Fernando el Católico in the taking of the city in 1485.
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Sa Penya
There's always something always going on portside. People-watchers will be right at home - this pocket must have one of the highest concentrations of exhibitionists and weirdos in Spain.
Sa Penya is crammed with dozens of funky and trashy clothing boutiques and the intense competition between the locally made gear and the imports keeps a lid on prices.
The so-called hippy markets, street stalls along Carrer d'Enmig and the adjoining streets, sell everything under the sun.
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Plaza de España
Directly across the Puente Nuevo is the main square, Plaza de España , made famous by Hemingway in his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Chapter 10 tells how early in the Civil War the 'fascists' of a small town were rounded up in the ayuntamiento (town hall), clubbed and made to walk the gauntlet between two lines of townspeople before being thrown off the cliff. The episode is based on events that took place here in Plaza de España. What was the ayuntamiento is now Ronda's parador.
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Plaza Bib-Rambla
The large, popular Plaza Bib-Rambla has restaurants, flower stalls and a central fountain with statues of giants. This square was the scene of jousting, bullfights and Inquisition burnings.
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Plaza de España
Plaza de España, a rather isolated and relaxing spot with its fountains and mini-canals, faces the northeastern side of Parque de María Luisa across Avenida de Isabel la Católica. Curving round the plaza is the most grandiose of the 1929 Exposición buildings, a brick-and-tile confection featuring Seville tilework at its gaudiest, with a map and historical scene for each Spanish province - all designed by the leading Iberoamericana architect, Sevillan Aníbal González.
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Plaza de Neptuno
Officially known as Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo, the next roundabout south of Cibeles is something of a crossroads of Spanish nobility. The Ritz and the Palace, two of Madrid’s longest-standing and most exclusive hotels, glower at each other across the plaza with self-righteous grandeur, while the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Prado do likewise in competition for the title of Madrid’s best loved repository of fine art. The centrepiece is an ornate fountain and 18th-century sculpture of Neptune, the sea god, by Juan Pascual de Mena. But madrileños, never the most reverent lot, know it better as the celebration venue of choice for fans of Atlético de Madrid who lose…
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