Start your visit here, at this information point , and get ready for a nice walk around the City of Letters, the great men and women of letters who were born in this Castilian city (namely Miguel Delibes, José Zorrilla, Rosa Chacel, Jorge Guillén… Describe the feelings that will soon cross your mind as you discover so many interesting places has the city has in store for you. a trip that will bring you in touch with the cultural wealth of a city where important historical figures like kings Philip II or Philip VI were born, and where the Catholic Monarchs were married.

Start your route right in front of the City Hall. You are now standing on the first Main Square (Plaza Mayor) ever designed in Spain with a rectangular shape. If you now leave the Plaza Mayor towards your left and walk all the way down the street called Fuente Dorada, you will reach the beginning of the Bajada de la Libertad, a downward street that will take you right in front of the façade of Teatro Calderón: the city’s main theatre and a convenient site from where you may enjoy a visit to a number of churches on the adjacent streets.

There’s an incomparable sight! And one of the city’s main emblems: the façade of Saint Paul’s church. Behind the church there beigins the museum route. Following Saint Paul’s side you’ll find the National Museum of Sculpture. The most important of its kind in the whole of Spain, it holds polychromed works by Juan de Juni, Berruguete or Gregorio Fernández, among other renowned artists. Very near here: the nearby buildings of the Palacio de Pimentel and the Palacio Real.