Living history
Three very old streets branch out from Plaza de la Villa:
Madrid street you will cross very fast while crossing the passage that separates it from Sacramento street.
Cordón street, where you can still hear the labored breathing of the Count of Puñoenrostro, chasing his courtesan. It was formerly called Azotados (the whipped) street, a name I prefer forgetting. Someone also told us, while looking at the narrow line, that is was the place from which Antonio Pérez escaped.
Codo (elbow) street. Warning! Three hundred years in the shape of a right corner are watching us! This is where the name comes from. If you come from the square, you will be able to see a beautiful door in the shape of a horseshoe arch to your left. It’s reminisces of Arab architecture, which is unique in Madrid. Now it has been there for five centuries, we are at the Tower of the Lujanes, beautiful mudejar construction of the middle of the 15th century, full of history since the beginning, when it was part of the Palace of the Luján or Lujanes; powerful and influential family of the Middle Ages.
