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Cover: Madrid - Quote from the acceptance speech to the RAE by playwright José Echegaray

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C. de las Huertas, 21, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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Madrid For all signs in Madrid
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Spain For all signs in Spain
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Metal and Concrete
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Literature and poetry


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¡La belleza! Lo que es no lo sabemos por ahora con certidumbre matemática; quizá no lo sepamos nunca. Pero que la belleza es algo, que existe, que palpita en la naturaleza, y que, así como la ola que llega a la playa rompe en espuma,...

Discurso de ingreso en la Real Academia Española
José Echegaray
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2025
Eli Zvuluny
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One of the quotes from writers and poets found in the Barrio de las Letras (Literary Quarter)

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Translation of the text on the cover:
Beauty! What it is we do not yet know with mathematical certainty; perhaps we shall never know. But that beauty is something, that it exists, that it throbs in nature, and that, just as the wave that reaches the shore breaks into foam, ...

Inaugural speech at the Royal Spanish Academy
José Echegaray

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Madrid - Quote from the acceptance speech to the RAE by playwright José Echegaray
C. de las Huertas, 21, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain (0 Meter)
Madrid - Quote from the play "Don Juan Tenorio" by poet and playwright José Zorrilla
C. de las Huertas, 19, Centro, 28012 Madrid, Spain (14 Meter)
Madrid - Quote from the article "Lieders" by the poet Rosalía de Castro
C. de las Huertas, 22, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain (18 Meter)
Madrid - Huertas Street
C. de las Huertas, 25, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain (23 Meter)
Madrid - Quote from "Novels of Love and Miracles" by the writer María de Zayas
C. de las Huertas, 27, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain (26 Meter)
Madrid - Lion Street
C. del León, 21, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain (40 Meter)

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