Where Your Feet Feel the Literature
Have you ever walked between fragments of books? Have you ever dreamed of being the main character of a novel? If your answer is yes, then submerge into the surprising Las Letras neighborhood.
Don’t rush; let yourself get carried away by paragraphs of literature printed in a beautiful golden color. Feel the Spanish Golden Age with every step you take, in every corner, in every wall. If, like me, you pass it every morning, you will be lucky enough to take the daily pulse of a neighborhood that is so much more than just buildings.
Modern shops, designer stores, traditional ones, convents, palaces, luxury hotels, bars, taverns, restaurants, museums, plazas, and a succession of streets where Madrid shares its history, culture, gastronomy and, of course, its literature!
It’s perfectly delimitated between the famous streets of Atocha, Carrera de San Jerónimo, Paseo del Prado and, closing the almost perfect triangle, Carretas Street. To go into Las Letras neighborhood is to submerge in the living history of the Spanish Golden Age. Sometimes you can hear the streets whispering a piece by Lope de Vega, or you can imagine Don Juan Tenorio. Sometimes you listen to the literary battles of Góngora and Quevedo and, other times, Cervantes’ figure welcomes you.
I have spent a whole day walking this amazing and essential area of Madrid. I have enjoyed it both day and night and, frankly, it has been one of the most gratifying experiences that I’ve had in this surprising city. I love to walk and get lost in the streets of Madrid, and Las Letras neighborhood has indulged this passion of mine.
I won’t tell you more; instead I invite you to feel the living pulse of this wonderful neighborhood and to discover with your own eyes the surprises that await you.


