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Benavente. Plaza Mayor.

The Plaza had this in the first half of the twentieth century. Equal height in buildings, gardens and monuments to Dr. Castro in the center, and a striking and ancient clock on the roof of City Hall.

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The nercadillo on Thursdays in 1970.

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trees and roses in the center of the Plaza since 1990.

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Concentration in the Plaza del Toro to the request of the day Enmaromado Veguilla many years ago.

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Corner Plaza with the new building and its portico (not yet complete the work), built in 1990. The height of the building stands on the other, and contrasts with the state of the Plaza as enciontaba shows the first picture.

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Celebrating the feast of the candles in 2007.

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Meeting Celebration on Easter. 2007.

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State where the Plaza Mayor de Benavente today. Prevent cars sometimes the pace and pedestrian promenade.

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cars are also parked in front of City Hall facahda, preventing its contemplation, and even access to it.

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As in many other towns and cities of Castile and Leon, with more or less population, are ground Campos, Páramo or other regions, Benavente also has a Plaza Mayor, well known and named Traditionally, though he had other names over its history, and Plaza of Spain and Market Square, to be held in it, since ancient times, the market Thursday, as their shape and structure was different. Pascual Madoz in Gazetteer-Statistical-Historical (1845-1850), writing about Benavente and refer to its monuments, important buildings and streets, reads: "Today we are building a beautiful house in the Plaza Ayuntamiento Mayor, or market, with a view to the Ox, which has 155 feet long., 36, lat., 40 high and the main facade and 80 for the accessory, that is all stone masonry raised above 13 arches, and O. consists of two orders of architecture, Tuscan and Doric, the first to the first ledge and the second from there to the end. It has 2 bows bigger than the other 11 of which one serves for the communication of the Plaza Mayor with the Ox, the parts of the fab. that stand in correspondence with the arches, are almoadillado, and the other smooth. On the 5 arches comes amid a broad ledge space to serve as a pedestal to the large balcony of iron should be placed in the middle, and on top of each other arches, there is enough to put railings fenestration. And in their way, by listing other streets, says the author mentioned above or Market Square "which is an almost perfect square, 80 to 90 steps, with tiled arcades." The Plaza is located in the center of the town of the city and attracts attention and is appreciated by the visitors, both in its form, as stated, for the buildings, with varying degrees of seniority, that surround it. Some of these, to be rebuilt, have changed the look you once had. Of these the most important, no doubt, and the text quoted is that of the Town Hall or City Hall, a neoclassical style. The construction project was provided by D. Manuel Díez Neighbor and executed in 1846 by architect D. Pedro Guzman. It was remodeled in 1878 by D. Second Weeding Viloria. In the sixties of last century raised its cover to save space. This building replaced the former home of the Regiment who was in the Plaza de San Nicolás and the current square. The Plaza is almost entirely arcades and buildings in it, built mostly in the nineteenth century was dominated by brick, except in the Hall, which is of stone. Some, to be restored or rebuilt were modified. Each is known by the name, last name, trade or occupation that is practiced there and still call: House Lesmes, Moran House, Daniel Allen House, Home of the Fishmongers, and so on. The narrow streets around the square are also worth attention, by name and by the importance of some buildings: Pasaje Pin Count, now street cherries, the Butchers Street, street of Cortes Street Leonesas and Cartagena, which will give the Plaza de San Juan. In the Plaza is held forever, as I said earlier, markets, once the vegetables, then known and most famous flea market on Thursday and today, for years, held back the vegetables. Also in the square called the Bull Enmaromado Veguilla the day takes place the solemn meeting on Easter and she is the final or she spend many parades, processions, horseback riding, etc. In addition, during the summer of cultural activities: concerts, theater, magosto years, all to the liking of the public. The rest of the year, although there is so many activities, the place is never empty and alone, it is always accompanied and full of cars that reduce and almost canceled the beauty that still holds. Cars that impede or calm and peaceful walk through it, as in antiquity. Cars that get noticed, and what many tourists complain that approaches the information desk located in the basement of City Hall. And they complain because compared to other places in towns with similar: Medina del Campo, Arévalo, Villalpando, etc. where the situation is different. Cars contribute undoubtedly, the deterioration of the pavement, built with boulders, and also the soiling. Cars that make a Plaza Mayor and the typical and characteristic of Castilian-Leonese people do not have much life, and is one of the important places and rendezvous at the passing of the days for residents of the city. La Plaza Mayor de Benavente will become more attractive to neighbors and strangers if you put interest in it, ensuring that the construction or repairs to buildings in it respect not only the height but also the type of material employee and even the color of it, whether to maintain or repair the columns or pillars of the arcades, and if the time came that, with the greatest possible agreement, solving the problem of parking, and was free of cars to move and walk freely and enjoy the public places of entertainment that is or are installed in the future. Because, moreover, to be in it the municipal building, they have many people come to see the mayor or council, to the tourist office or the OMIC, and other services therein provided. The photographs shown are intended to see different times and situations of the square over the years. Citizens, neighbors or strangers, may show their pleasure or displeasure at such contemplation, but they all serve to recoder distant past or not so remote, the that must always be respected and valued properly. Emiliano Pérez Mencia