Praza Correxidor - Ourense, Galicia, España
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N 42° 20.181 W 007° 51.722
29T E 593746 N 4687748
Plaza protagonist of two crucial moments in the history of Ourense: the arrival of the first Franciscan monks and the exercise of the power of the Crown through the magistrate.
Waymark Code: WM13D03
Location: Galicia, Spain
Date Posted: 11/11/2020
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"Square located to the east of the cathedral, in it a statue of the writer Otero Pedrayo seems to invite you to contemplate the beautiful vision of its apse, the dome and the towers.
As its name indicates, here was the residence of the corregidores, of which there are still some vestiges in the buildings of modern construction: an inscription from the 17th century and a shield from the 16th century.
The place was centuries ago the first location of the Franciscan convent, settled in the city since 1238. Everything indicates that at that time the friars had two houses and the church, but that serious urban disturbances at the end of the s. XIII caused the fire and destruction of the monastery.
In the square there are also the Temes house (for the shields, today dedicated to a school) and a neo-Gothic chapel, the work of Antonio Crespo (1897).
Its important role in the history of the city has not prevented it from being one of the neuralgic centers of the Ourense nightlife today.
The statue dedicated to Don Otero Pedrayo is the work of Buciños and dates from 1983. Commissioned by the City Council, it was temporarily located in the Alameda, until in 1988 it was moved to this place. Another illustrious author, Eduardo Blanco Amor, placed the protagonists of his novel A Esmorga here , and it is not surprising: the square is still the center of Ourense's nightlife today."
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