Corredera Square is one of the most emblematic places in the Spanish city of Córdoba.

This space, the only quadrangular main square in Andalusia, is located in the center of the city. It has its entrance and exit through the so-called Arco Alto and Arco Bajo.

Among the buildings that shape the square, the Mercado de Sánchez Peña or the Casas de Doña Ana Jacinto stands out. The current market of Sánchez Peña served as a town hall as well as a prison, until in the 19th century, 1846, the businessman from Córdoba, José Sánchez Peña, bought the building and installed the most modern industry in Córdoba with steam engines to create a factory. of hats, installing the workers in the upper part of the building where they had their homes.

The space occupied by the square has been profoundly remodeled over time. The square has been used for different purposes, mainly festivals, such as bullfights from which the current name of the square derives.

It is believed that until the 15th century, the Plaza de la Corredera was a large esplanade outside the Medina or upper city of Cordoba.

The current morphology comes from the project of the Salamanca architect Antonio Ramós Valdés, who under the mandate of the mayor Francisco Ronquillo Briceño, built a semi-regular rectangle 113 meters long and 55 meters wide, in 1683.

The last execution carried out in the Corredera took place in 1838, while the last bullfight was carried out in 1846, once the Los Tejares bullring was built.

On April 5, 1893, a building began to be built in the middle of the square to house the supply market of the Plaza de la Corredera, being inaugurated on August 2, 1896 and granted to a company its exploitation for fifty years.

Until the twentieth century, the Plaza de la Corredera was a high commercial enclave.

On July 14, 1951, information was received from the city's chief of Veterinary Services, in which the poor hygienic conditions of the food market were reported. The administrative concession of the space occupied by the market expires in 1956 and it will be two years later when Antonio Cruz Conde, mayor of Córdoba, definitively approves the demolition of the market to carry out one in the basement of the square.

In 1986 the rehabilitation of the Plaza de la Corredera was agreed, culminating the works on December 9, 2001 which were attended by Manuel Chaves, president of the Junta de Andalucía, as well as the mayor Rosa Aguilar.