Free Tour Barrio de las Letras – Literary Madrid and the Golden Age

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Madrid is not traversed: it is listened to.

And in this free tour through the Barrio de las Letras, Madrid speaks.

Accompanied by a local guide expert in history, literature, and heritage, you will delve into a cultural and theatrical experience where history, theater, novel, and poetry blend in the streets of Madrid's historic center.

This is not a tour of dates and names.

It is a narrative journey through literary Madrid, where the walls of the buildings breathe literature and words have left their mark.

You will learn about the indomitable character of Valle-Inclán and his snubs to our first Nobel Prize winner, José Echegaray; the lyrical sensitivity of Federico García Lorca; and the elegant dramaturgy of Jacinto Benavente.

A journey through five centuries of Madrid's cultural history.

We will travel back in time to the Spanish Golden Age, in front of the houses of Lope de Vega and Miguel de Cervantes, reliving the disputes of the eternal enemies Góngora and Quevedo, while you feel how the characters born there still stroll through Spain's most literary neighborhood.

A cultural free tour of Madrid, enjoyable and rigorous, designed for travelers who want to understand the city, not just see it.

An experience for those seeking real stories, emotion, and depth, told with respect, passion, and words.

An experience of five centuries traversing the streets of Madrid.

And if perchance I lie to your graces, may a devil mount me on his neck and take me to the deepest of hells!!