{"id":10025,"date":"2022-03-30T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/plaza-general-castanos-el-paseo\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:52:09","slug":"plaza-general-castanos-el-paseo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/plaza-general-castanos-el-paseo\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaza General Casta\u00f1os (El paseo)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Here is where there once was, if not the most well-known, one of the most famous post houses in Spain<\/b>. A continuous hustle and bustle of carriages would pass through here, given that this was an essential route along the Camino Real towards the Kingdom\u2019s Capital, providing Bail\u00e9n with a privileged what we could call \u2018Stagecoach\u2019 tourism.<\/b><\/p>

Nowadays <\/b>it is called Plaza General Casta\u00f1os in honour of the General who defeated the Napoleonic troops, Francisco Javier Casta\u00f1os y Aragorri \u2013 first Duke of Bail\u00e9n. It is popularly known as El Paseo<\/b>; a name which refers to those evenings where the young people of Bail\u00e9n used to walk through the square expecting to find their first love.<\/p>

In the mid-19th Century it was renovated to install a carving of the roman goddess Iberia known as \u201cThe Matron\u201d and identified by all as Mar\u00eda Bellido; the heroine of Bail\u00e9n<\/b>, a valiant woman who, alongside the people of Bail\u00e9n, dedicated herself to supplying water to the Spanish Army, when a French bullet broke her jug while offering water to General Reding.<\/p>

In 1862<\/b>, Queen Isabel II<\/b> took a tour through Andaluc\u00eda and Murcia to learn first-hand about the needs of the territory, arriving at Bail\u00e9n on the 6th of October of that same year<\/b>. Upon her departure, the people of Bail\u00e9n say goodbye to her, showing their great admiration and in gratitude, Her Majesty makes various donations; thus, the Fountain of the Goddess Iberia received it with several plaques around it in her memory and tribute to various protagonists in the conflict, as well as to the majesty of Her Majesty<\/b>, who commissioned it in honor of the great work carried out by the people of Bail\u00e9n in supporting the Spanish Troops that 19th of July and, in addition, to supply the city of Bail\u00e9n with water with a public fountain, as well as many more tributes to the victory that occurred in 1808<\/b>. Until the mid-70s, the square was used for the celebration of civic and religious events during the Commemorative Festivities of the Battle of Bail\u00e9n.<\/b><\/p>

Nowadays it continues being the meeting place to start an afternoon or evening of leisure, in addition to being the scenario for concerts of local music bands, thanks to its Music Kiosk<\/b>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Here is where there once was, if not the most well-known, one of the most famous post houses in Spain. A continuous hustle and bustle of carriages would pass through here, given that this was an essential route along the Camino Real towards the Kingdom\u2019s Capital, providing Bail\u00e9n with a privileged what we could call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-bailen","category-monuments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13960,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions\/13960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismobailen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}