Calle Mayor

The Calle Mayor is one of the most important streets in the history of the town.

We enter it through the arch that opens in the building known as casa Çapera o Sapera. This is an old family house probably built in the 15th century, which may have been the residence of Bishop Francisco Climent, also called Bishop Sapera after his second surname. This house stands at the corner of the street of the Order of Calatrava, popularly known as the Butcher's Street, as it was apparently the place where the Lord of the Town authorised the slaughter of animals. Beautiful Gothic windows can be seen, and at number 7 there is a sculpted figure on the façade that was found inside the house; it represents a soldier who may be from the Napoleonic or Carlist period.

From the casa Sapera to the Plaza Mayor, the layout of Cretas follows a structure that could well date back to the medieval expansion of the Muslim street plan. This structure consists of a central street from which narrower lanes branch off, originally dead ends, such as the calle Serrano Aparicio, which led to the old town wall and is popularly known as the calle de la taleca, shaped like a sack due to its characteristic narrowing; and the calle San Roque, which leads to the gate-chapel dedicated to this saint.