Plaza de Zocodover, Toledo

The Plaza de Zocodover is a square in the city of Toledo, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

In 1854 an ambitious project was drawn up by the technician Santiago Martín Ruiz, to reorganize the Plaza de Zocodover, transforming it into a rectangular portico square.

To do this, a wall was planned to bridge the gap to the postern of San Miguel and the proposal also stipulated its characteristics, among which it highlighted the construction of typical arcades of Castilian architecture.

This colossal work never came to fruition, as the technical capabilities of the time, combined with the steep slope from Zocodover to the main facade of the Alcázar, 23 meters high, made it extremely difficult.

This involved the demolition of a series of houses, deemed to be of little value, that blocked the view of the top of the square from the bottom and vice versa.