This innocuous statue has a great story attached to it. After Franco came to power, many statues of the Spanish monarchy were destroyed. Vandals went after the figure of Philip III and pulled him from his pedestal. But when the statue hit the cobblestones of the Plaza Mayor, hundreds of

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The Casa de la Panaderia (“House of the Bakery”) was once a bakery, but it was burned to the ground in A.D. 1672. It was rebuilt in 17 months by Tomás Román. The Casa escaped the flames of the fire of A.D. 1790, which destroyed three-quarters of the Plaza Mayor,

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