This is the oldest square in Benguela.
It was an important center of commercial activity, concentrating a large part of the city's economic interests and social life, due to the influx of caravans from the interior with the aim of trading rubber, wax and ivory.
The artillery piece that would have been placed there, in 1846, would have been from the cannon that served to ward off attacks by the natives, mainly by the Mundombe who continually attacked the city to loot.
The piece was carefully aimed at Dombe-Grande.