Madrid de las Letras
May 21, 2008
If you come on our Culinary Adventures in Madrid program–the five-day insider food and wine experience–you will stay at a beautiful designer hotel called Hotel de las Letras. Despite its name, it is not properly in Madrid’s Barrio de las Letras, but a short jaunt gets you there.
The Barrio de las Letras is an enchanting neighborhood famous first because Spanish Golden Age literary giants such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Quevedo and Góngora lived there. In the 1980s its fame came from one street in particular–Calle Huertas–which was a nerve center of Madrid’s over-the-top nightlife. Today the bars and cafés remain popular for drinks, tapas, and leisurely chats, and Calle Huertas sports literary quotes embedded in the recently pedestrianized street and author biographies on the walls of the buildings. There is even more to see in the Barrio de las Letras, as you will read in this New York Times article.
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