Only two blocks away from the Plaza de la Libertad, the Plaza de Armas (Arm's Square) is located. The Plaza occupies the original site of the Great Plaza that was designed on April 12th, 1823, when Santa Anna de Tampico was founded. It is flanked by the Colón Street, the City Hall, on the Carranza Street by the Cathedral and on the Olmos and Díaz Mirón Streets by hotels and commercial establishments. At its center, there is an enormous gazebo with a circular structure made of rose canter rock and granite, having a characteristic the columns that descend from the exterior platforms and that support the circular copula covered by blue mosaic.