Almagro's main square is one of the most distinctive in Spain. The long rectangular plaza is flanked on its two long sides by arcaded galleries with the characteristic green-painted wooden shutters that give the space its particular colour and character. At one end, built into the arcade, is the entrance to the Corral de Comedias — its presence barely announced, easy to walk past without realising what it is.
The square is good at any time of day: coffee in the morning under the arcades, a walk through in the afternoon heat when it empties out, and then dinner and drinks in the evening when the restaurants open their tables outside. The local pisto manchego (a Castilian ratatouille) and manchego cheese are the things to order. The square is small enough that everything feels intimate; on festival nights in July, when the Corral is in use, it becomes truly magical.