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Plaza de la Corredera
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Plaza de la Corredera

A large rectangular arcaded square, unusual this far south.

UNED Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Walk from the Mezquitaabout 10 minutes
Getting in⭐ free
Worth knowing

The Corredera is 17th-century and closed on all four sides — a plaza mayor of the kind common in Castile and rare in Andalusia. It has been a market, a bullring and a public space, sometimes at once.

⭐ The market underneath and the bars around the arcade make it one of the few places in the old city that is busy with people who live here rather than people visiting.

It is plainer than the lanes around the Mezquita and that is the appeal — it is a working square rather than a monument.

Our tip

Late afternoon, from a table under the arcade, is the right way to use it.

Plaza de la Corredera, photographed

Plaza de la Corredera
Plaza de la CorrederaXosema, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Plaza de la Corredera
Plaza de la Correderajorcolma, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Plaza de la Corredera
Plaza de la CorrederaKent Wang from Barcelona, Spain, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Plaza de la Corredera
Plaza de la CorrederaKent Wang from Barcelona, Spain, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Plaza de la Corredera
Plaza de la CorrederaBenjamin Smith, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

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