Playwright, poet and novelist Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562-1635) was one of the most important figures of the Spanish Golden Century of Baroque literature. His reputation is second only to that of Cervantes, his contemporary and literary rival. How ironic, then, that this 16th-century two-storey town house bought by the writer in 1610 and converted into a museum in 1935 is located on what is now Cervantes Street! A national monument conserved by the Royal Spanish Academy, the museum recreates the atmosphere in which the author lived and worked for more than twenty years. Step into the fascinating world of the man known as the Shakespeare of Spanish literature.
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