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Starting at the Puerta del Sol and going eastward on this street, Calle de Alcala, we pass many historical landmarks and important buildings of Madrid: Government offices and banks, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, the Buen Retiro Park... just to name a few.  And also the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, a famous bullfight ring, speaking of which I should add that I admire its beautiful architecture but haven't had the courage or strong desire to see what takes place inside.

One of the people who frequented this bullring was Ernest Hemingway.  It is well known that he loved Madrid and kept going back there.  During his stays in the Spanish capital, he visited the Plaza de Toros many times because he had gotten fascinated by bullfighting.

"The only place where you could see life and death, i.e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it.  I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death."  - from Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway, American author and journalist

Madrid, Spain VI

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Media: Original watercolor on paper
Image Size: 11.5 x 15.5 inches (29 x 39 cm)

Frame/Mat: No

Purchase: Sold

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