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Calle Mayor in the daytime, pass by the Plaza
Villa, and hardly give it a second glance, but it
was here that Madrid has been governed since its
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The Casa de Cisneros was constructed in 1537 to
house a nephew of Cardinal Cisneros.
Local
rule was granted to Madrid under Alphonse XI in
the 1300's. The local government's first
city hall was built on this square.

In the center of the plaza can be found an 1888
statue of Don Alvaro de Bazán, the Marquis de
Santa Cruz. In the photo above, the building
right of the statue is the current town hall
which was build from 1640-1670A.D.
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