Cuesta de Moyano (La)

Calle Claudio Moyano

About

A sort of smaller literary Rastro, this collection of wooden bookstalls and kioskos climbs a pedestrian street from the Atocha end of the Paseo del Prado -- alongside the railings of the Botanical Gardens -- right up to the southwestern corner of Parque del Retiro. A statue of 19th-century novelist Pío Baroja stands at the top. Practically all the books are secondhand and in Spanish, but whether you read Castilian or not, it's great fun to wander, browse, and simply absorb the scene, unchanged over many decades and one of the great traditional sights of outdoor Madrid. Most stalls are open daily from 10am to 7pm; Sunday mornings are the liveliest time.

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