Plaza de las Tendillas is Córdoba's civic heart, with a pleasingly mundane name. In the 1300s, knights of the order of Calatrava set up houses here with small shops, or "tiendas," and the diminutive stuck.

The square took its present form after demolitions in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A Swiss hotel rose in the 1860s, then came down sixty years later, making way for redesign by Félix Hernández, then unknown, later the restorer of Medina Azahara and the Mosque-Cathedral. At its centre stands a 1923 bronze of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, "The Great Captain," who ended the last Islamic kingdom in Spain. Locals once dubbed it the tontodromo: the stupidrome, a place to be seen.

VoiceMap's tours reach Tendillas as the final stop on walks through Córdoba's civic and architectural history. They connect its Civil War-era sirens, landmark buildings, and Roman-named streets to the city's story.