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Cervantes in Madrid: Walking the Streets That Shaped Don Quixote 0

The streets of Madrid's Barrio de las Letras look ordinary enough — cobblestones, old taverns, the smell of garlic from an open kitchen door.
But walk them knowing what happened here in the early seventeenth century, and the neighborhood becomes something else entirely.
This is where Miguel de Cervantes lived, wrote, and died — and where the first edition of Don Quixote rolled off a printing press on Calle Atocha in 1605.
Carlos Galvin traces the literary life of Spain's greatest writer through the places that still carry his story.
Eight stops, one neighborhood, four centuries of history.