The Plaza del Muelle or Praza do Peirao ("Quay Square") is a square of medieval origin located at the northern edge of the historic centre of Pontevedra (Spain), very close to the Burgo Bridge and the old port neighbourhood A Moureira. Origin of the name The square owes its name to its location in the space occupied, five centuries ago, by one of the most important quays of the city before the successive fillings, when the sea still reached this place at the bottom of the Lérez river. History The space occupied by the square was the centre of the town's port activity in the 15th and 16th centuries. This square had the condition of an urban shoreline as an immediate and external space of the walled town when the city was the main port of Galicia. Some of its first fences ended in the old Cans street. In the 16th century, there was a salt warehouse to the west of the square where salt was stored for salting fish unloaded at the port. Also at this time, there was a wicket gate in the medieval walls at the junction of the current Valentín García Escudero Square with Arzobispo Malvar Street and the Quay Square, which, near the Lérez river, served as a link between the medieval city and the docks of that time. The walls reached down to the river, protecting the quays. In the 19th century, there were still quays and piers here. In 1856, the square was still irregularly shaped and was called Plank Square or Quay Square. The former name was derived from the fact that a plank held up by wooden pillars reached the quay and was used for landing ships. In 1876, the municipal architect Alejandro Sesmero proposed to carry out "improvements to the ornamentation and alignments of the Quay Square and the location of a new fountain". With these improvements, the square was presided over by a neoclassical stone fountain crowned by the statue of the Roman goddess Fama. In 1931, a floor was added to an existing one for the current building of the Official Association of Quantity Surveyors and Technical Architects of Pontevedra, to the south of the square, but it was not until the mid-50s of the 20th century that, according to the project of the architect Juan Argenti Navajas, an additional floor was added with an attic under the