Golden Age Literary Walk

Plaza Santa Ana is distinguished by the two bronze monuments standing at opposite ends of its central pedestrian strip, one honoring the seventeenth-century playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the other the poet Federico García…

The Teatro Español rises from the corner of the Plaza de Santa Ana, recognizable by its neoclassical façade adorned with balconies and a triangular pediment. This building occupies the site of the sixteenth-century Corral del Príncipe, a…

The Ateneo de Madrid is identified on Calle Prado by a narrow facade featuring three busts above the doorway: Velázquez, Alfonso the Tenth, and Cervantes. While this entrance suggests a modest structure, it leads into a vast interior…

A stone relief depicting the bust of Miguel de Cervantes marks the site at number two Calle de Cervantes where the author of Don Quixote spent his final years and eventually died in sixteen sixteen. The original house that stood on this…

The Casa de Lope de Vega garden is a small, quiet courtyard tucked behind the seventeenth-century home of Spain’s most prolific playwright. You can identify the site by the modest brick facade at number eleven Calle Cervantes, where the…

The Convento de las Trinitarias Descalzas de San Ildefonso is recognizable by its austere, dark brick facade and the iron-barred windows facing the street of Lope de Vega. Founded in sixteen twelve by Francisca Gaitan Romero, this…

Calle de las Huertas is a street marked by brass letters engraved directly into its cobblestone pavement, spelling out quotes from some of the most influential writers in the Spanish language. This street sits at the center of the Barrio…

The bronze statue of Miguel de Cervantes stands on the Plaza de las Cortes, positioned directly in front of the Congress of Deputies. Created by the Catalonian sculptor Antonio Solá and inaugurated in eighteen thirty-five, it depicts the…