Plaza Mayor (Spanish: Plaza Mayor – “Main Square”) is one of the central squares of the Spanish capital. It is located in the part that is commonly called “Austrian Madrid”.
It competes with Puerta del Sol for the right to be called the main square of the Spanish capital, but unlike the democratic Puerta del Sol, Plaza Mayor is a status square, the “navel of Spain”, as Lope de Vega said. The Madrid baroque square, one of the few monuments of the Habsburg era, was designed by the architect Juan Gómez de Mora.
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