A crossroads rather than a square, the market for farm tools, hardware and pots was held here for centuries, a custom that ended up giving this corner its name. Santo Domingo Street, with its lively commercial life, ends here and Los Vinos Street, the tapas area par excellence of Ourense, begins. It is centered by a beautiful fountain that decorated, before the Confiscation, the monastery of Santo Estevo de Ribas de Sil. Arcades surround the square to the west and, in front, the magnificent pazo that he built at the beginning of the s. XVI don Juan Fernández de Boan y Landecho, whose weapons are on the facade. The square is considered one of the cultural nuclei of Galicia, since in its environment many of the great writers and scholars of Galician culture were born or lived: Vicente Risco, Otero Pedrayo, Florentino López Cuevillas, Xoaquín Lorenzo “Xocas” and Eduardo White Love.
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