 It was an area already delimited just north of the Calçada.The royal representative, lieutenant colonel Frenchman Reinaldo Oudinot, to the "corregedor", ordered that ""That in the Field of the Calçada there should be built a wide square for the markets and other streets and in this Square porch houses should be built , trees, and a fountain in the middle, everything in conformity with Colonel Lieutenant's plant"".Work started in the year 1793 and, shortly after, became the new economic center of Póvoa de Varzim where the markets and fairs had been transferred.