Madrid: A New Biography

Madrid: A New BiographyThe miraculous story of Madrid, how a village became a great world city. For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. But Madrid's fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre of a vast global empire. Luke Stegemann tells the surprising story of Madrid's flourishing, and its outsize influence across the world. From Cervantes and Quevedo to Velzquez and Goya, Spain's capital has

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