Description
As he does with the Santa María square, Federico García Lorca describes the plaza del Pópulo or Lions square in an admiring and somber way, lamenting the abandonment in which it is found.(…) In a serene square, which has an elegant but mutilated and dismantled palace, a graceful altar with rag flowers next to the aristocratic seriousness of a triumphal arch with a warrior air, and a fountain with lions blurred in the stone (…) The Plaza del Populo was one of the most important squares in Baeza, which housed the main public buildings. In this square were located institutions such as the Old Butcher Shops - current headquarters of the courts -, the Civil Court and Public Notary Office or Casa del Pópulo - current Tourist Office -, the Arco de Villalar, the Puerta de Jaén or the Fuente de los Leones, named after the ornamental elements in the shape of a lion through which the water gushed and which apparently come from the Ibero-Roman ruins of Cástulo, which today is in questionable, because for experts in Iberian sculpture its carving in siliceous stone and its formal appearance suggest a much more modern chronology.
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