Plaza de Santo Domingo
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Type | plaza |
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Maintained by | Ayuntamiento of Madrid |
Location | Centro, Madrid, Spain |
Coordinates | 40°25′12″N 3°42′30″W / 40.420049°N 3.708422°W |
Major junctions | Calle de San Bernardo, Calle de Preciados |
The plaza de Santo Domingo is a public square in the city of Madrid, Spain.
History and description
[edit]The square covers an area of 8,488 m2 (2.097 acres).[1] It is located in the Palacio neighborhood, itself belonging to the Centro District.
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Located in the northern end of the city by the 16th century, near the Walls of Philip II, the square became a key point for the traffic arriving to Madrid from El Pardo or from Fuencarral.[2] The huge convent of Santo Domingo covered an area going along the cuesta de Santo Domingo, extending from the plaza de Santo Domingo to the plaza de Isabel II.[3] The square gained its current size after the demolition of the convent during the 19th-century ecclesiastical confiscations.[4]
In 1959, during the Francoist dictatorship, a 3-storey parking lot (the first multi-storey parking lot built in Spain) was built in the square.[5][6] As the urban space degraded with the preponderance given to car, the part of the parking lot above ground was ultimately demolished in 2006. The new square, with a gardened area designed by Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada installed on the surface, was inaugurated in April 2007.[7]
References
[edit]- Citations
- ^ Llés Lazo & Higueras García 2016, p. 121.
- ^ Amo Horga 2003, p. 20; 64.
- ^ Moreno Ballesteros 2015, pp. 48–49.
- ^ Llés Lazo & Higueras García 2016, p. 10.
- ^ Gutiérrez, Vera (11 April 2006). "Concluye la demolición del aparcamiento de Santo Domingo, que será una plaza en 2007". El País.
- ^ Llés Lazo & Higueras García 2016, p. 27.
- ^ "La plaza de Santo Domingo deja de ser sólo un aparcamiento". El Mundo. 27 April 2007.
- Bibliography
- Amo Horga, Luis María del (2003). Cercas, puertas y portillos de Madrid, (S.XVI-XIX) (PDF). Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. ISBN 978-84-669-2990-5.
- Llés Lazo, Carlos; Higueras García, Ester (2016). Paisaje urbano, necesidades y funcionalidad del Sistema de Plazas del entorno de Sol de Madrid (PDF). Instituto Juan de Herrera; UPM.
- Moreno Ballesteros, Vicente (2015). La desamortización de Madoz en Madrid capital (1855-1894) (PDF). Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid.