HISTORIAL AND ARTISTIC ITINERARY OF THE ENDURING OURENSE

Notes: Xesús Ferro Couselo

         THE IRON SQUARE.- The Iron Cross – The cross was called the small square where the streets crossed – it was for a long time a market of pots, farm implements and other iron tools, brought by the Asturian merchants, who left us the hardware stores that still today constitute the most important commerce of this square.

The row of graceful arcades of the 500s, on one of its sides, the palace that, flanked by splendid coats of arms, built with the doubloons of his uncle the “oídor”, the restless and brilliant gentelman D. Juan Fernández de Boán y Lanchedo, back in the first half of the 600s, and the beautiful and monumental fountain, torn by the disentailment of the Imperial Monastery of Santa María La Real de Oseira, give this square a special and unmistakable stamp. Tourist and painters usually get caught in the charm of this corner of the old and enduring Ourense. For many, undoubtedly, the best.

XESÚS FERRO COUSELO