If a few weeks ago we introduced you 10 movies that just seeing them made you want to travel to those wonderful places that were seen on the big screen, today we bring you some tourist routes for lovers of literature.
The books on many occasions they not only make us live the lives of their characters but also transport us to those places where history unfolds. If you like to read, if you like literature in general, you should not miss these literary routes that we present here, in Actualidad Viajes.
Route of the «Golden Age», through Madrid
If you want to start your literary route in Spain, how about doing it from the capital itself? In Madrid we find the route known as the "Golden Age" route. The famous adventures of "Captain Alatriste", novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte which was brought to the big screen by the hand of the filmmaker Agustín Díaz Yanes. It also starred the great Viggo Mortensen.
In the work of A. Pérez-Reverte, said captain visits from the Plaza de la Villa to Villa Inn, going through the Plaza Mayor, Church of San Ginés, la Lope de Vega House Museum, Museo del Prado, Monastery of the Incarnation and Captain Alatriste's Tavern.
How would you like to be able to visit those same places?
Route through Castilla La Mancha (Spain)
Naming the beautiful Castilla La Mancha is that you almost forced the name of the famous hidalgo Don Quijote of La Mancha. Don Quixote's route passes through the provinces of Toledo, Albacete, Ciudad Real and Guadalajara, making a total of 10 sections of route. But not only the slim hidalgo and Sancho, Miguel de Cervantes characters, were the only ones who can be named when talking about this historic and authentic autonomous community.
The famous and rogue was also hanging around here Lazarillo de tormes, which visited Toledo lands. If you want to make your tour you should visit: the Palace of Pedro I de Torrijos, the Church of Santo Domingo de Silos de Val de Santo Domingo Caudilla, the Church of Santa María de los Alcázares de Maqueda, the Monastery of the Immaculate of Escalona and the Almorox square, all passages that are seen in this famous anonymous novel.
Route that begins in Aragon and ends in the Valencian Community (Spain)
Surely you read the famous poem in a high school year, "El Cantar del Mío Cid". This literary route is well traveled and visited by writers, Philology students, historians and lovers of the work of Mío Cid.
The tour covers a total of four autonomous communities: Castilla León, Castilla-La Mancha, Aragon and the Valencian Community. The eight provinces of this route are: Burgos, Soria, Guadalajara, Zaragoza, Teruel, Castellón, Valencia and Alicante, and the route covers more than 2.000 kilometers of route Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar's trip.
The different sections of the route can be done both on foot as by road:
- It has five sections and five rings or circular circuits.
- Three linear routes that join the main road.
Literary route of the Albaicín (Granada)
This route has as its starting point the viewpoint of San Cristóbal and as a final point, the Saint Nicholas' lookout. Tour various areas of the Granada neighborhood of Albaicín, declared a World Heritage Site in 1994. Some places it passes through are the squares of San Bartolomé and San Gregorio Alto, the Carmen de la Cruz Blanca and the house of the Masks, among others.
While you enjoy this Andalusian route you will be able to listen to readings of texts by writers such as Federico García Lorca, Francisco Ayala or Rafael Guillén (the three, Granada writers).
Literary routes through Barcelona
These different literary routes through Barcelona are based on 3 novels whose connection point has the city as a reference:
- "The wind's shadow" y "The game of the angel", both by Catalan writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
- "The Cathedral of the Sea" de Ildefonso Falcones.
In the first two novels, if we follow the steps of Daniel Sempere, Julian Carax or Fermín Romero de Torres, the route revives the dark and mysterious atmosphere visiting places that still preserve the atmosphere of Barcelona from the early XNUMXth century such as Santa Ana street where the Sempere bookcase, the Plaza Real, the Plaza Sant Felip, the Arch of the Theater where imaginatively we could see the Cemetery of Forgotten Books or The four cats.
If, on the contrary, we prefer the route established by Ildefonso Falcones in his book "The Cathedral of the Sea", we can relive the story of Santa Maria del Mar, one of the most emblematic monuments of Barcelona.
Arnau, its protagonist, tours the Barcelona of the XNUMXth century, among other places are the Santa Maria del Mar Square, Nova Square, Sant Jaume Square or the Argenteria street.
Which of these routes do you prefer? What book or books have you read of all these? What route do you already know and have you been lucky enough to do on foot? Let us know!