Place d'Espagne, Historic square in Lorca, Spain

Plaza de España in Lorca is a monumental square flanked by the 16th–18th century Colegiata de San Patricio, the Casa Consistorial, the Salas Capitulares and the Casa del Corregidor, plus private houses. Its present layout dates from a 2010 reform that paved it with granite and tripled pedestrian space to 2,300 square metres.

Called Plaza de Afuera in the 15th century because it lay outside the walls, the square took its present form when the Colegiata de San Patricio was built: the old wall in this sector was demolished and the chapter rooms opened onto the new space. The Concejo then built a new town hall here, and the Casa del Corregidor rose on one corner. Its name changed repeatedly, from Plaza Baja to Plaza de la República, becoming Plaza de España in 1939.

The square's name changed repeatedly: Plaza de Afuera in the 16th century, Plaza Baja in the early 17th, Plaza Mayor and Plaza Principal in the 17th and 18th, Plaza Real in the 19th, Plaza de la Constitución, Plaza de Isabel II in 1860, Plaza de la República in 1931, and Plaza de España since 1939. It has hosted festivities, concerts, theatrical performances, bullfights, fairs, markets and prisoner executions. In 1920 hundreds of people gathered here for fairs selling garden produce, farm tools and wooden chairs and tables.

The 2009–2010 reform removed the traffic lane nearest the Colegiata and the parking areas, and replaced the paving with granite; the pedestrian area grew from 800 to 2,300 square metres. The works were funded by the regional government and inaugurated on 29 July 2010. Benches of natural stone double as bases for the street lamps.

Excavations under the square uncovered houses and workshops of an Almohad suburb that stood outside the walls of Islamic Lurqa, the deepest layers reaching back to the Bronze Age. The finds document an unbroken sequence of occupation on this spot.