Tracing Zaragoza's Medieval Morería: Calle Azoque and Plaza Salamero

Following the conquest of Zaragoza in 1118, Muslim residents who chose to remain in the city were required under the post-conquest terms to move outside the Roman walls after one year, forming the district known as the Morería. Today, the urban layout around Plaza Salamero and Calle Azoque retains the structural memory of this medieval quarter. Calle Azoque directly preserves both the route and the name of the zoco, the market street that municipal histories identify as the main north-south artery of the Morería. According to municipal histories, the Morería is reconstructed as an adobe-walled enclosure originally equipped with gates and smaller portillos. Because a continuous standing perimeter wall no longer survives today, the former limits of the Morería are read mainly through the surviving street plan rather than through visible standing masonry.