Also known by other names such as Market Square or Irrigation is one of the most beautiful squares in the city. In its center is the Torrijos Monument, represented by a large obelisk that characterizes this square.
It is also known for being the place where Picasso took its first steps, being the Picasso Foundation Museum Casa Natal located in the houses of Campo, houses that make up one of the sides of the square. Politicians like General Riego also lived there, sculptors like Fernando Ortiz, writers like Juan José Relosillas, architects like Gerónimo Cuervo or painters like Bernardo Ferrándiz.
Paveros, milk vendors with their herds of goats, candies, biznagas and jams, guitarists, maids and soldiers, revolved around the monolith that, since 1842, stands in the wooded center of the Plaza in tribute to General Torrijos, whose slogans of freedom and justice were the referent of that boy named Pablo Ruiz Picasso.
And we could not forget that in this environment, even today, as then, doves fly as the symbol of the paradigms announced in the cenotaph of the fallen military. They are the pigeons that Picasso, from his childhood, and until his death, painted - from his father's hands - as the perennial and mythical emblem of his long work.