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Highlights include Ateneo de Madrid, Calle de las Huertas, Calle Mayor, Convent of the Discalced Trinitarians, Cuesta de Moyano, Glass Palace.

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  1. Ateneo de Madrid: story on the “Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak” route

    Here, a private literary club will become the site of a specific struggle for membership and elected office.

  2. Calle de las Huertas: story on the “Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak” route

    The garden will link the neighborhood’s theatrical life to a love story that became a posthumous legend.

  3. Calle Mayor: story on the “Madrid of Kings and Citizens” route

    This stop will show how one accidental obstruction changed the outcome of a carefully prepared assassination attempt.

  4. Convent of the Discalced Trinitarians: story on the “Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak” route

    Here it will be necessary to distinguish what is known about Cervantes’s burial from what researchers were unable to prove.

  5. Cuesta de Moyano: story on the “Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”” route

    The bookstalls conclude the route with the story of how temporary trade acquired a permanent address.

  6. Glass Palace: story on the “Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”” route

    The greenhouse will let us discuss whom the imperial exhibition regarded as an exhibit.

  7. Great Pond in El Retiro Park: story on the “Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”” route

    The monument by the water reveals the cost of a competition, ambition, and a long wait.

  8. La Almudena Cathedral: story on the “Madrid of Kings and Citizens” route

    You will trace how a promise to a young queen survived a long construction project, but had changed by the time of her burial.

  9. Lope de Vega House Museum: story on the “Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak” route

    The house shifts the conversation from the playwright's fame to a family loss whose trace ended up in the museum inventory.

  10. Plaza de Cibeles: story on the “Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”” route

    Madrid's ceremonial center will become the site of the Republic's last internal clash.

  11. Plaza de la Armería and the Royal Palace of Madrid: story on the “Madrid of Kings and Citizens” route

    The route will end at the balcony from which the king had to answer the demands of the assembled city.

  12. Plaza de las Cortes: story on the “Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak” route

    The finale will move the dispute over the right to vote from a cultural society into a parliamentary chamber under arms.

  13. Plaza de Santa Ana: story on the “Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak” route

    Here it will become clear what it cost the city to gain the open space in front of the theater.

  14. Plaza Mayor: story on the “Madrid of Kings and Citizens” route

    Here, a market square becomes an open courtroom where a confession saves a life but takes away property and freedom.

  15. Prado Museum: story on the “Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”” route

    Here, the museum’s history begins not with paintings, but with an empty science cabinet and a posthumous portrait.

  16. Puerta de Alcalá: story on the “Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”” route

    The circular roadway will show how urban planning can become part of a political crime.

  17. Puerta del Sol: story on the “Madrid of Kings and Citizens” route

    Here it will become clear why converging streets turned a city crossroads into the site of the first mass resistance.

  18. Royal Academy of History: story on the “Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak” route

    This stop shows how a book warehouse became the long-awaited home of scholars.

  19. Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid: story on the “Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”” route

    The garden archive turns scientific drawings into a story of evacuation and return.

  20. San Jerónimo el Real Church: story on the “Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”” route

    The church will link court ritual with the oath that one man made, broke, and repeated.

  21. Teatro Español: story on the “Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak” route

    This stage introduces the route's story of actresses fighting for their livelihood and profession.