Urban center of the city, where the most important profane and religious celebrations took place over the centuries. It originated during the Arab occupation, as "massala", a space for collective celebrations, and was then located outside the walls, in front of one of the main gates of the city, the door of the Saddlery. In this square, King D. Duarte, the Paço dos Estaus (which has remarkable Gothic vestiges) was established and the Henriquina Fountain and the Santo Antão Church are preserved, constructions where the royal architects Miguel Arruda, Manuel Pires intervened. and Afonso Álvares. In the temple, the ultimate example of Renaissance art in Évora, there is a painting panel of the Souls attributed to Jerónimo Corte Real - the Portuguese Vergil author of the epic poems The Second Siege of Diu and Shipwreck of Sepúlveda - which was buried in Evora on the 16th of November 1588.

Praça do Giraldo is an icon of homage to Geraldo Geraldes, the Sem Pavor, because he conquered Évora from the Moors in 1167. In thanks for this feat, D. Afonso Henriques named him mayor of the city and frontier of the Alentejo region that would help to conquer.

In Évora, all roads lead to Praça do Giraldo. It has always been this way since its construction in 1571/1573.