Free Walking Tour Madrid Barrio de las Letras
Are you ready to join the best Free Walking Tour Madrid Barrio de las Letras? It doesn’t matter if it is your first walk around the city or if you are here living for many years. The time has come for you to walk through the place where Spain learned to tell its tales. History, literature, comedy, tragedy, poetry, and a lot of witty rivalry that shaped today’s Madrid.
Walk Where Madrid Learned to Tell Its Tales
A walk filled with art, anecdotes, and a lot of the beauty of the past and the present. The small streets of Barrio de las Letras invite you to look down and up to the real magic of the thousands of pages written by people from the golden era. Today, you won’t find just a neighborhood, but a scenery where modern literature was born.
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Why you Should Discover the Literary Heart of Madrid
Here the words are not just on the old books, but they are everywhere in the facades, in the air, and also on the ground. The tour has a special pace, it’s just not the monumental Madrid, not the nocturnal Madrid, (although you can find hera very lit nightlife street).
Here you will see the most creative, everyday life Madrid. A place where writers, actors, editors, picaros shared the taverns, the streets, the houses, in a completely different way as tourists, merchants and locals live in this historical neighborhood.
Free Tour Itinerary Through Barrio de las Letras, Madrid
So the tour begins in Plaza de Santa Ana, the pulsing heartbeat of this magical neighborhood. A place today filled with terraces, hotels and iconic restaurants that once were the meeting point for Hemingway and many more historical figures.
Then we’ll walk through Huertas, where literature is in every step. You’ll read some verses, some beginning of immortal books written right on the floor in a golden font meant to last forever.
- We’ll talk about the great names: Lope de Vega, Zorilla, Calderón de la Barca, the great Cervantes and all his legacy. How he ended resting in the same neighborhood.
- Also we will be through plazas and little corners like Jacinto Benavente, and some comedy patios, streets that look very, very calm but hide the passions, envy, friendships, successes and griefs, Everything connected by a passionate guide that knows stories and history inside and out.
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Important things to know about the tour
- The free walking tour lasts about 2 hours and 30 minutes.
- Our guides speak flawless English.
- Regarding pricing, the free tour is tips based (contribution at the end).
- Book in advance to help us manage the group size. We organise smaller groups, with the ideal ammount of participants to have a great experience.
- Starting point is the center of Plaza Mayor.
Before you come
- Check the weather adn come with the correct clothes. Madrid can be pretty chilly and pretty hot.
- We strongly recommend comfortable shoes.
- Spots are limited. Please book with us. You will be asked to provide your confirmation before the start date, either printed or via your phone or another digital means. If you are unable to attend, please remember to cancel your booking to give others the opportunity to enjoy this experience.
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Why This Free Walking Tour of Madrid Barrio de las Letras Changes the Way You Read the City
What you get at the end of the day is a rigorous history mixed with a lot of the local happy-go-lucky spirit, anecdotes, rivalries, curiosities, legends that don’t usually appear on the textbooks, a clear comprehension of how Madrid turned out to be the cultural center of an empire and how this neighborhood was a key in the process, why the literature was a better weapon than the pistols in one time in history.
And most of all, a new way of looking at the city. A new pair of eyes for its colourful streets. The only question remaining is, are you ready to walk the walk with the best team in town? Book today our free city walking tour Madrid and remember to make as well a free night walking tour in Madrid.
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