plaza mayor

To me this is a Place you pass going to or from your hotel when you have plans to see something else. It is located outside the walls of Avila and many things you want to see o many retaurants where you want to eat are inside the walls.

This Plaza Mayor is a smaller scale of the Plaza in Salamanca.... it is a great place to walk around, watch people and have a beer or two with your favorite "tapa"....

The local fruit and veg market - all produce were totally huge compare to ours in the uk - very interesting

Center of the city, was former market and was being set up on the day of my visit for another food market. I enjoyed the most seeing elderly men of the town all sitting on a bench in the sun,supervising the market being set up. fun for people watching.

Another vehicle free zone where you can sit back and relax. Grab a drink or a bite.... and relax. It is Spain after all!

So, this is (another) plaza. It was a nice place to stop and get a pepito and a coke and rest from the walking.

Like most of Ávila, the buildings surrounding the square had been cleaned and restored to a point that their age was deceptive. Not the grandest of Spanish squares housing restaurants serving average food at inflated prices, head off the llaza mayor for better restaurants or find one of the smaller squares.

This was a fairly small mayor. Several food options that were serving a similar menu. Not much to look at architecturally, but a good rest stop to refuel. Clean bathrooms available at the restaurants.

Nothing special. Pretty ordinary in fact, but in a way that's a good thing. After the relentless touristiness of much of the rest of Avila, the irritation of not being able to walk past a restaurant without someone hassling you to go in, the general pressure and stress, it's a relief to find somewhere ordinary.

Small, not much character and cafeteria type food . It is a small town square nothing to write home about

I wasn't going to write about this until I saw the reviews that seemed disappointed in it. Granted, it's hardly one of the great plazas of Spain, but I found it charming, perhaps because on the day of my visit the local farm market was set up there. It does what main squares in towns are supposed to do, bring people together, and especially on market day it was bustling. The old town of Avila, inside its amazing walls, is tiny, and if you go, for the walls or for St Teresa, you can easily and should include the Plaza Mayor in your visit there.

With so many beautiful plazas in so many towns in Spain, and since Avila itself is so historically impressive, I don't know why they have let their central plaza become so run down and filled with the tackiest tourist restaurants. It has great potential but right now it's just tacky and now worth more than the few minutes it takes to walk through on the way to somewhere else.

An attractive enough square with a couple of restaurants/bars around the edge. Not much going on on our visit, but only stayed one night.

This plaza was not as lively as the plaza de Santa Teresa. If you are looking to people watch consider spending your time at Teresa's plaza.

Ya que no impresiona por su tamaño,como otras muchas, pero al estar en la zona peatonal y de paso ya sea para las murallas,como la catedral,tiene ese halo que la hace acogedora.Ademas con sus soportales y la multitud de ofertas de tapeo/comer en la plaza,apetece quedarse y disfrutar del paso del tiempo sin prisas viendola.