The writers’ quarter
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Between Plaza Santa Ana and the Paseo del Prado, the Barrio de las Letras was home to Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Quevedo. Its pedestrian streets, engraved with literary quotations, lead to bars, bookshops and the great museums.
In Spain’s Golden Age, the 16th and 17th centuries, this district near the theatres gathered the country’s greatest writers, often rivals. Cervantes is buried in the Trinitarian convent on Calle Lope de Vega, where his remains were identified in 2015.
