Plaza de la Catedral de Girona (Girona Cathedral Square), Girona

Plaza de la Catedral de Girona (Girona Cathedral Square) is a very small, rectangular space. It follows a slight slope and does not present any sculptural or natural elements. The pavement consists of cobblestones.

All the buildings surrounding the square deserve a detailed study due to their quality or history. Primitively, the square of the Cathedral was another point on a long road that allowed the land transit of men from beyond the mountains to the interior of the peninsula (the Via Augusta in Roman times). In the fifth century a chapel, called Sant Genís, was located west of the staircase in front of the house where the Arc bar is today. The chapel was owned by the monastery of Sant Pere de Roda according to a bull of Pope Benedict VI. In 1604 it was demolished and its roof tiles used for the Seu work.

However, there was another chapel built in the Romanesque period. It was the temple of Santa Maria de les Puelles, mentioned in a document from the year 1083 and which was located on the other side of the square, inside the old Palau de Justícia de Girona or Casa Pastors, near the wall of the Ballesteries. In 1245 a brotherhood had been established in the chapel; in 1401 the existence of two altars is known, one dedicated to Santa Maria and the other to Sant Martí. Its demolition took place in 1724.