Plaza de la Corredera is the only enclosed rectangular plaza mayor in all of Andalusia, and its 1683 Castilian-style arcades look almost comically out of place in Moorish Córdoba.

Look closely, and you will notice two buildings that break the square's symmetry. One is Doña Jacinta's house, kept standing because its owner flatly refused to let anyone demolish it, reportedly securing backing from King Carlos II himself. The other has served, in turn, as a city hall, a prison, a hat factory powered by Córdoba's first steam engine, and a fresh produce market, which it remains today.

The square has also hosted bullfights, Inquisition trials and, after the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, a mock naval battle complete with boats firing rockets at one another.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tour uses the plaza to illustrate Córdoba's layered history, tracing Roman mosaics unearthed beneath the square, the Mannerist courtyard inside the old market, and the many reinventions of a space that has never quite stopped surprising its city.