Route of Sins around the Central Market

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It is recommended, although it is not necessary, to use binoculars to observe some details.

The triangle made up of three of the most cutting-edge buildings in our city, La Lonja, the Market and the Church of Santos Juanes, make up the sample book of an authentic stone and metal zoo, a place where sculpture shows nature, in a real way on occasions, and with the fantasy of medieval iconography, whose tradition refers to bestiaries. at other times.

The route takes its name from the northern gate of La Lonja, which bears such a name, and from the Central Market, the first market in Spain for its variety and beautiful architecture that is, without a doubt, an invitation for the sin of gluttony.

We owe the idea to the writer Vicente Muñoz Puelles, because his book “The animals of the city” was the starting point for the elaboration, by the Museum of Natural Sciences, of these routes to discover the fauna hidden in the walls of the buildings and monuments of the city.