In colonial Sucre the main square, surrounded by the most important governmental, religious and civil buildings, was located in the heart of the city. Colonial life revolved around the Plaza Mayor or Plaza de Armas as it was called back then.
Its original layout as a square and its size still remain the same. Its main features like the diagonal and circular paths, the monuments dedicated to the liberators, the pavilion, the main stone fountain as well as other smaller fountains stem from the French influenced era that started after the country’s independence.
Sucre’s citizens used to go to the square to court; the women walking clockwise and the men anticlockwise around the square so that the men got the opportunity to greet the women each time they passed each other. Stories like this one add to the plaza’s charm.
