Praza do Ferro
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"More of a crossroads than a square, this is where the market for farming tools, hardware and pots was held for centuries, a custom that ended up giving this corner its name. Here Santo Domingo Street, with its lively commercial life, ends and the streets of “Os Viños” begin, the tapas area par excellence of Ourense.
With an almost triangular floor plan, it is centred by a beautiful fountain that decorated, before the Confiscation, the courtyard of the monastery of San Esteban de Ribas de Sil (today a national inn). In it we find sirens, caryatids and, as we ascend, Eros with two eagles above his head.
The square is surrounded to the west by arcades and buildings from the 15th century and, opposite, the magnificent palace built at the beginning of the 16th century by Don Juan Fernández de Boan y Landecho, whose coat of arms adorns the façade."
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