San Idelfonso de Las Trinitarias Descalzas Convent

Lope de Vega Street: this fact wouldn’t be interesting if it weren’t for the fact that this is the street where Lope de Vega’s archenemy, Cervantes, is buried. Afterwards, while strolling down the neighborhood you learn that the place where Lope de Vega lived is called Cervantes Street. The world is upside down!

It’s a kind of nonsense that some “funny man” of our days thought of to perpetuate this eternal enmity between two of Spain’s greatest and famous writers. Curiosities like this are the ones you discover while wandering around, making you smile imagining all this literary figures out in the open, with pen in hand, giving way to famous literary, and not so literary, fights.