Free Theatrical Tour: Madrid de las Letras

Join the Free Theatrical Tour Madrid de las Letras and accompany our prestigious playwright Ramón María del Valle-Inclán on a walk through literary Madrid. We will become characters from different eras and we will learn at street level the history and evolution of Hispanic culture that has given us unsurpassed writers. A journey of past, present and future in which we will discover the Spanish Golden Age, Madrid's bohemia and the great generations of writers who have passed through our city.

This Madrid is not real. It is an impossible Madrid. It is a city in which all eras mix; where the house where Lope de Vega lives coexists with the speakeasies where Hemingway drinks rum and with places where the arts and sciences of the 21st century are disseminated.

It is the past, the present and the future of Madrid, only conceivable through the absurdity and the deformation of concave and convex mirrors. This world, halfway between reality and dream, has been created by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán. As characters in it, we will walk through it hand in hand with its author. Thus, both he and ourselves will check if his existence (and our own) makes sense, at least, through literature.

🎩Follow in the footsteps of Valle-Inclán…

We will meet in the Plaza de Santa Ana, entering the Barrio de las Letras ; We will see ourselves reflected (and deformed) in the famous mirrors of Callejón del Gato , while the “Bohemian Lights” will illuminate our route; We will enter La Fontana de Oro popularized by Pérez Galdós and the house of Lope de Vega; We will celebrate a Nobel Prize ceremony in the Plaza de Jacinto Benavente and we will attend the controversy that caused a duel with clubs, with serious consequences for Valle-Inclán, at the Café de la Montaña ; We will pass by the houses of Giacomo Casanova , the most famous seducer of all time, and Miguel de Cervantes , one of the greatest figures of Spanish literature and author of Don Quixote, one of the best works of universal literature; We will witness a cock battle between Quevedo and Góngora with verses from both writers, encouraging our favorite poet; and we will end up directing our footprints towards the Ateneo de Madrid and the Spanish Theater .

We will immerse ourselves in events and legends, in the city as the setting and inspiration for a great literary work, along a journey that will open the doors of the absurd and social realism. Alleys, squares, old comedy corrals and social gathering cafes will show us a Madrid written in golden letters .