Plaza de la Constitucion

Square Saint Sebastian, Spain

Plaza de la Constitución is a square located in the old part of the city of San Sebastián. In this square, with its arcades as its main feature, the big fiestas and events of the city are usually held, such as the San Sebastián tamborrada or the Santo Tomás fair. The new neoclassical square was erected after the fire of the city in the context of the siege of San Sebastian in 1813.

As soon as you enter the square, the numbers on each of the windows of the houses that overlook the square draw your attention. These numbers refer to the boxes that were once those windows and that overlooked the city's bullring that this bullring had become. After the construction of another larger bullring in the city, the Plaza de la Constitución ceased to be a bullring but the numbers continue to remain in each of the windows to remember that anecdote. Today in the square we can enter the occasional shop and some bars with their terraces on the square, an ideal place to have a quiet wine, far from the crowds that usually form inside some of the busiest bars in the rest of the city. the Old Part of San Sebastian.