Free tour

Free Tour Barrio de las Letras. The Golden age

Duration: 1h and 30min

Languages: Spanish

Quality Verified Registered on August 10, 2018

We offer you visits to discover the great cultural offer that the city of Madrid offers. We are dedicated to showing the city of Madrid from a different point of view, to discovering its history and legends in a different way. Our visits have character, fun and of course a lot of desire to teach. Our team is made up of graduates in history, art history and tourism. Are you going to miss it? With us you can discover another Madrid and we promise that you will enjoy the capital even more.

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Free payment tour, no set price, booking and cancellation are free

Tour description

We will walk through the streets of the most bohemian neighborhood of Madrid discovering the most curious stories and anecdotes that writers have left in the city. Corners to walk and discover other times.

The most important avenue in this neighborhood is Calle Huertas, we will see how a place of orchards ended up being the epicenter of literary Madrid. Writers such as Cervantes, Quevedo or Lope de Vega lived in this neighborhood.

We will discover the stories of illustrious writers from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The fights and loves of Lope de Vega, the rivalry between Quevedo and Góngora, the curious and busy life of Cervantes.

*If you are a group of more than 6 people, you cannot do the free tour, nor if the reservation is made separately. If you want to visit together, you can contact us.

Meeting point:

Plaza Mayor 222 28012 Madrid Spain

Plaza Mayor 222 28012 Madrid Spain

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With a BLUE umbrella next to the information point in the Plaza Mayor

How much does this tour cost?

Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).

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JoséLuis 23 Jul 2021

Alcorcón

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Travelled in group - Jul 2021

Excelente guía. Impresionante la información y sobre todo la forma de contarlo. De 10

Sara 18 Jun 2021

Barbastro

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Travelled in group - Jun 2021

Excelente, Carmen!!!! Bravo! Estuvimos a punto de cancelarlo y por suerte no lo hicimos. El tour es mejorable en cuanto a lugares visitados, pero las explicaciones y e...

Clara 15 Dec 2019

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Travelled in group - Dec 2019

Tour completí es un cielo, y gran gurú...aprendimos un montón y nos divertimos mucho. Clara Mogrobejo

alicia castro 18 Nov 2019

Hicimos por la mañana la parte antigua de la ciudad y nos gustó muchísimo, así es que por la tarde hicimos con Carmen la visita por el barrio de los escritores, un lug...

loreto salvador 17 Nov 2019

Muy bueno y recomendable. No era mi primera vez con un free tour pero sin duda ha sido de las mejores experiencias. El guía fantástico, muy divertido, sus explicacione...

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