The Biblioteca Nacional de España (“National Library of Spain”) is on the Paseo de Recoletos, near the Plaza de Colón. It’s the largest library in Spain and houses millions of books, maps, drawings, and photographs, including a first edition of Don Quixote that’s available in digital form.  If you like history,

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Meet the Patron Saint of the Internet. Spain cherishes two saints named Isidore. The first, Isidore the Laborer, is the Patron Saint of Madrid. But this studious man outside the National Library of Spain is Isidore of Seville—”the last scholar of the ancient world.” Born around A.D. 560, Isidore came

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