Lope de Vega Street is a street in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain, El Madrid de los Austrias, within the Barrio de las Letras. It goes down from León Street to Paseo del Prado at the height of the Puerta de Velázquez of the Prado Museum.
It was previously called Cantarranas Street, until in 1844 it took the name of the Phoenix of the Ingenious, whose House-Museum -paradoxically- is not located on this street but on the neighboring and parallel one dedicated to another contemporary genius of his, Miguel de Cervantes. The origin of its ancient and curious name was apparently the large puddles that formed the orchards of the old monastery of San Jerónimo el Real in the lowest part of the street.
At the top of the street, at number 18, there is the convento de las Trinitarias, in whose primitive church Miguel de Cervantes was buried in 1616 and where a natural daughter of Cervantes lived in seclusion, and from 1621 Sister Marcela de San Félix, before Marcela del Campo, daughter of Lope himself, took her vows. The detour that the funeral procession of the Phoenix of the Wits had to take to pass in front of the Trinitarias so that her daughter could see him on August 28, 1635 is famous.
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