Plaza 1˚ de Mayo

Andalucía


Broad Plaza 1º de Mayo was originally Úbeda's market square and bullring. It was also the grisly site of Inquisition burnings, which local bigwigs used to watch from the gallery of the Antiguo Ayuntamiento in the southwestern corner. The Iglesia de San Pablo, on the square's north side, has a particularly elaborate late-Gothic portal from 1511.


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1. Iglesia de San Pablo

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The Iglesia de San Pablo has an impressive, elaborate, late-Gothic south portal from 1511, facing the plaza, and some fine pillars, arches and carved…

2. Antiguo Ayuntamiento

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