Right now, you are holding in your hands a book with which we promise to help you get to know Madrid... really well. In it, we are not only going to ask you to explore Madrid by our side. Nor will we limit ourselves to telling you about its history or its anecdotes. Rather, we have combined these ideas to show you the oldest, most cheerful, mysterious, elegant and village-like side of our city. By the way, did you know that... In the 18th century, piles could have caused an international conflict, which the Abbé Alberoni managed to avoid with great audacity? Madrid is the only capital of the European Union founded by Muslims? In Madrid there have been traffic jams for more than three hundred years? In seventeenth-century Madrid there were three hundred taverns and only one bookshop? Our oldest tavern is Casa Alberto, located where Cervantes claimed to have received a letter from Apollo himself? Isabel II was allowed to be an adulteress, in order to avoid another Carlist war? The PSOE was founded in the tavern Casa Labra? Was there a major jinx in our Royal Family? A President of the Government, when a minister threatened to cut off his hands to avoid signing a document, told him: "You don't cut off any of them. With your right hand you will sign. With the left you will touch my perenguendengues".

Publisher: La Librería