The plaza de la Villa is an urban square in central Madrid, Spain.

[3] The Casa de los Lujanes (with its adjacent tower), dated from the 15th-century, is the oldest civil building in Madrid.

[4] The tradition states the tower was the location where Francis I of France was held captive after his capture in the 1525 Battle of Pavia.

[5] The primitive Fountain of San Salvador [es] (or Fuente de la Villa), located in the centre of the square, also disappeared.

[6] In 1888, a statue of Álvaro de Bazán by sculptor Mariano Benlliure was commissioned for the 300th anniversary of his death; the square was chosen as location both because of its centrality and because of its small size the sculpture would stand out the most; the inauguration took place on 19 December 1891.