PLaZa DeL ALToZaNo square
WheRe LiFe BeaTs

The Plaza del Altozano square is a lively place. This can be seen in its shape: its outline is irregular, with each side having a different length and shape. The façades of the houses are also different depending on which side they are on. And still, it is on the whole a great, very representative, view of a display of local architecture.
This square is the main one in Sequeros, the space which its social life revolves around and where the town's pulse beats. This  is the meeting point, the place to go for a coffee on the terraces in the summer, for the markets, the reference point for the wandering, curious visitor. This was and still is the chosen place for processions and popular dances. In the past, it was also the bullring. It has substituted the Plaza Eloy Bullón regarding these uses - the daily meeting point and the festival centre-, when it became obvious that the latter had become too small, in particular once Sequeros was designated capital for the Judicial District.

 Before this happened and while the demographic development of the locality was taking place, whose population was growing quite rapidly, the Altozano square was taking on its longer, more spacious shape, a more adequate space for the comings and goings of markets and large celebrations, which needed  more space now for their development and brilliance. The size and number of its balconies - which were in the past rented to see the bullfights - had to do, in part, with the importance of the bull-related festivals that took place there.


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