roof, which configured its current structure. In 1993, a stone monolith was installed in the square with an inscription recalling that the caravel Santa María was built on the docks in Pontevedra. Description It is a very irregular rectangular square bordered on the east by Valentín García Escudero Square and where Barón and Arzobispo Malvar streets converge. It is paved and pedestrianised, like the rest of the historic centre of the city. The square is dominated on the south side by the noble building of the Official Association of Quantity Surveyors and Technical Architects of Pontevedra (Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos de Pontevedra). The central part of the square is a landscaped area, with small paved paths between the lawns, which converge in the centre on a neoclassical fountain dating from 1876, topped by the statue of the Roman goddess Fama. In the northern part of the garden, there is a stone monolith with the following inscription: "More than half a millennium ago, the caravel Santa María "la Gallega" was built on this bank of the Lérez, where Admiral Christopher Columbus changed the fate of the world". To the north of the square, at the end of Arzobispo Malvar Street, is the former birthplace of the intellectual and mayor of Pontevedra Xosé Filgueira Valverde. The remains of the house in which the poet, admiral and gentleman Paio Gómez Chariño lived are preserved on the site. He lies in the church of the Convent of Saint Francis. Outstanding buildings On the south side of the square is the building of the Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos de Pontevedra. It is a large detached stone house that took on its current appearance in the mid-20th century. It has a ground floor, two upper floors and an attic. The northern façade, which faces the square, has a large stone chimney on the right-hand side and segmental arches in the windows of the first and second floors. On the Baron Street façade, the first floor has a balcony along the façade and the second floor has a balcony in the centre and two galleries at each end. On the ground floor, the windows and doors are protected by weathering steel elements. On the roof, the tiled roof is finished on the sides of the south and north facades with prominent copper gargoyles At the end of Arzobispo Malvar Street, on