Miguel Angel Rumayor
History is present
Still with the smells of "pinchitos" from the San Miguel Market, we get to Plaza de la Villa.
In the beginning, it was known as "Plazuela de San Salvador", where the city council would be held during the reign of Alfonso VIII at the beginning of the 13th century, long before Madrid became the capital and some time before Felipe IV (17th century) authorized the building to have official meetings and the Casa de la Villa was born.
There, up until 2008, there was Calle Mayor, built according to the design of the architect Juan Gómez de Mora. It was modified in 1789 by the eminent Juan de Villanueva, the architect who added the famous gallery of columns to allow the kings to see the procession of the "Corpus Christi".
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