If you want to enjoy reading outdoors, the Centro district has numerous enclaves where you can do so. Until June 22, the ‘Sit down and read 2024’ campaign returns, a way to promote reading and local bookstores, carried out by the Madrid City Council, through the Area of Economy, Innovation and Finance.
This campaign, included in the digital commercial promotion project Everything is in Madrid, will allow citizens to learn about the works of different authors and get closer to different literary genres.
You can take a literary and walking tour of the eight locations where the ‘Sit and Read’ benches are located. We propose the following route through the streets of the Centro district:
-We begin the walk through the Alonso Martínez square. On the boulevard we can find the mayorquina novel Joana Marcus Before December, belonging to the Months by your side saga. Fantasy, science fiction and young romance mix in this story of love and passion with a countdown that will end before December.
-We find the next location on the street Fuencarral in its confluence with the Barceló square. There we will find 10,000 miles to find you of Argentina Mercedes Ron. The distance between Álex and Nikki is shorter than the love between them. Can you put limits on passion?
-In the number 29 of the Gran Viain front of the House of the Book, magic shines with one of the works of the saga of Harry Potter by the British writer JK Rowling. Adventures, mystery, humor and a lot of magic to enjoy one of the best-selling and most successful literary sagas in cinema.
-In the corner of the Gran Vía street with Alcaláthe ingenious Argentine girl Mafalda, invites us to discover the publication Mafalda. All stripsby the recently deceased Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, better known under the pseudonym Quino.
-The Callao square welcomes the literary proposal of Javier Castillo The crack of silence. A mystery surrounding the disappearance of seven-year-old Daniel Miller. More than three decades of silence, the outcome of which leads journalist Miren Triggs to follow the trail. Will he find out what happened?
-In the confluence from the streets of Seville and AlcaláAlicante Elisabet Benavent and his novel Snob They bring us closer to relationships in the frenetic world of finance. A scathing, ironic, funny and tender x-ray with a fun plot to find love at the drop of a hat. matches.
-In the most literary neighborhood of Madrid, Cortes, 100 iconic recipes from Madrid with a stop at their marketspublished by the Madrid City Council and which can be downloaded using a QR code recorded on the bank itself, located in the Plaza de Santa Ana.
– And, on the street Orchards 71next to the statue of the dog Paco, we find the bench with the work of Fernando Navarro Something that serves as light. The true story of the Spanish pop-rock group Supersubmarina, a story of their success and tragedy.
-We finish the route in the Plaza de la Moor’s Gate. In the Palacio neighborhood, a great epic, a disappeared civilization and one of the most unknown episodes in the history of Spain with the historical novel The nine kingdoms from Madrid Santiago Diaz.
If after taking this tour you feel like continuing with the literary world, you can go to the numerous bookstores and the four municipal public libraries in the Centro district to continue learning more about these authors and their work.
