 He dates from year 1574, the Count of Barajas is this date populated these lands that normally were marshy (by the frequent ascents of the river) with leafy trees and beautiful sources. One of its ends adorned them in 1578 with two columns removed from a Roman temple dedicated to Hercules who existed in the street Marbles and found during excavations to recover a house, on them two sculptures of Julio were placed Caesar (restaurador of Híspalis) and Hercules (founding of the city). In the other end the columns were hopeless with lions and shields representing Spain and Seville, placed these columns in second half of century XVIII. In 1876 the pedestals of the columns were protected with iron doors, of the public. In 1885 a marble source, well-known was placed next to the columns of the lions popularly like the one of the Duck, that was in century XVI in the Seat of San Francisco, behind the City council. In one of its lateral ones, in a recondite street is the one that was during one season the romantic writer Gustavo Adolph Bécquer.
It was a concurred stroll until century XVIII, at the moment does not represent the grandiosidad of which would be in his first time, happening through diverse estadíos, by the nights usually one becomes a place of encounter with people who deal with their bodies, although she is being eradicated by the multiple changes that are being made in the zone due to new constructions and new laws discussed in the administrations. So it is so the famous swap-meet of Sundays no longer concentrates to the habitual traveling salesmen who during many years were made agree in this site of Seville, moving its location in another point of the city. |
