Barrio de las letras

Ok, so call me a big dork (and Brian the poor guy who is patient enough to put up with me), but the first thing that I wanted to see once we got to Madrid was the neighborhood where a number of famous Spanish authors lived and died, the Barrio de las letras.

It is here where the famous playwright Lope de Vega lived and wrote for 25 years until he died in 1635. The house was later restored in 1935 by the Real Academia Española and filled with memorabilia related to his life and works.

Unfortunately for me (but fortunately for Brian), the house was temporarily closed to visitors while we were in Madrid.