Estella

Estella was built in the eleventh century in the heat of the Camino de Santiago as a town of Franks where its powerful commercial activity led to its urban expansion. Its commercial character took shape in two markets, one located in the Rúa de las Tiendas, in the primitive burgh of San Martín, which was alive until the leave averagees, and the other located on the other side of the Ega, in the new burgh of San Miguel, at the gates of its church. This market, born in the first half of the 12th century, was moved in 1187 to another growing area of the city: the Población de San Juan, developed to the west around the parish of the same name, at the foot of which an open space arose, the current place de los Fueros, which would house the Thursday market from then until today without interruption, with the exception of a period in the 13th century, consolidated thanks to the granting of royal privileges. It received the name of place del Mercado Nuevo to distinguish it from that of San Miguel, known as the Mercado Viejo.

In addition to this primitive commercial use, it also served as the city's main social and festive space, especially as a bullring, a function it performed until 1917, when a new place was built. 

The main place of Estella was definitively configured in its elevations during the centuries of the Baroque, when magnificent domestic constructions were erected on three of its flanks, some in stone and others in stone and brick, of leave floor with arcades and three floors, with abundant balconies and galleries of arches, many of which were incomprehensibly demolished in the 20th century to erect new residential buildings. The south side was Closed since the average age by the facade of the church of San Juan. In the middle of the 19th century, the ruin of its tower led to the reform of the temple and the construction of a new frontispiece, designed by Anselmo Vicuña. The architect from Estella designed a classicist project , characterized by its massive appearance and a top with a large triangular pediment flanked by two bell towers.