The Historian · Martín · Madrid
Ateneo de Madrid
If you want to understand 19th- and 20th-century Spain, this reading room matters more than any palace. The arguments that made and unmade republics happened under these lamps.
A 19th-century cultural club whose galleried library and portrait-lined halls were the engine room of liberal Spain. Politicians, writers and exiles argued the country into being here.
— Martín, The Historian
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