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1 review of San Idelfonso de Las Trinitarias Descalzas Convent

Cervante's Pantheon

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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.


Las Trinitarias Convent remained unnoticed by me for many years, since I only know the austere and grey façade on Huertas Street. Today, while I calmly walked through this fascinating neighborhood, a ray of light, illuminating a beautiful baroque tower that contrasts with the grey wall awakened my insatiable curiosity. I walked towards the small street, turned left and, suddenly, it was as if an invisible hand transported me to the times of the Spanish Golden Age.

Lope de Vega Street is beautiful, full of color contrasts in the facades, cool shops, taverns, trees, and, above all, a magnificent and austere building that contains the remains of Cervantes, his wife and one of Lope de Vega’s daughters, who by the way, was also a recognized writer of her time.

A thousand and one anecdotes can be found in this street and convent, where the daughters of two great and recognized rivals ended up as nuns. Where one is buried and the other one had a funeral cortege by his daughter’s request.
From the convent and church stand out a few baroque elements and, above all, an unrecognizable austerity in such an important temple. The compound was declared National Monument in 1921.

I was completely bewitched by this street, and I was in awe since I don’t know how many times I passed along Huertas Street and I’d never, ever, had enjoyed this parallel street that houses beautiful and hidden secrets. Lope de Vega Street had to be like that!

It’s a complete must to walk through this street!
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