The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find
it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast
over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city
that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious
political enterprise the western world had seen since the fall of
Rome, the Spanish Empire, is brought to life in vivid diaries,
letters, memoirs and histories. The Earl of Clarendon describes
seventeenth-century bullfights; Salvador Dali plays a surrealist
joke on a snooty barman at the Ritz; Rubens visits the Alcázar;
Manet is at the Prado; generals and anarchists meet in the Puerta
del Sol. The many stories included here evoke for today's tourist
the dramas and personalities of a city's past, by drawing on the
eyewitness accounts and commentaries of visitors and residents of
earlier centuries. Hugh Thomas has chosen these and other vivid
snapshots of Madrid's history from diaries, letters, memoirs and
novels across five centuries to delight and fascinate the armchair
and prospective traveller alike.
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