The Plaza Mayor of Valladolid is located in the center of the city of Valladolid a few meters from other significant monuments such as the Church of San Benito el Real or the Church of Santa María La Antigua.

Presided over by the monument to the repopulation of the city, Count Ansúrez, the Plaza Mayor is the main meeting place for the people of Valladolid.

In the middle of the 11th century, Valladolid was a small agricultural village surrounded by a defensive fence.

The space occupied by the Plaza Mayor and its surroundings was outside this first wall, near the gate known as the Wheat shutter, where merchants entered the town with food.

The existence of the Plaza Mayor in the current location began to be defined in the middle of the 13th century when the market moved from the Plaza de Santa María to the Plaza del Mercado, which from the beginning of the 16th century was called Plaza Mayor.

The different guilds settled around it, and it was the Convent of San Francisco, until 1499, the most important building in the vicinity. As of that date, by mandate of the Catholic Monarchs, it was the Municipal House that presided over the life of the city.

After its destruction, due to the serious fire that began on September 21, 1561 and that until September 23 destroyed at least 440 houses in the city, the council began, the day after the end of the fire, on September 24 , reconstruction work. Francisco de Salamanca was commissioned to build temporary stores in the square itself and those affected by the fire were relocated, using houses loaned by the neighbors themselves.