Inside the Enclosed Morería

Move into Plaza Salamero and look towards Calle Azoque. After the conquest of 1118, Muslim residents who chose to remain in Zaragoza had to move outside the Roman walls after a year, forming the Morería. Calle Azoque preserves both the route and the name of the zoco, the market street that municipal histories identify as the Morería's main north-south artery. Those same municipal histories reconstruct the Morería as an enclosure with adobe walls, gates and smaller portillos. That perimeter no longer survives as a continuous standing wall, so the useful clue today is the street plan itself: the surviving routes let you read traces of an enclosed quarter without pretending that every medieval boundary is still visible on the ground.