Museo del Romanticismo

This guide to the Museo del Romanticismo in Madrid opens on a small pistol behind glass and the writer who owned it, Mariano José de Larra, the sharpest journalist in the city and hopelessly in love with a married woman named Dolores Armijo. You'll hear about the afternoon in February 1837 when she came to his house to end things for good, and about the collector, the Marqués de Vega-Inclán, who later rebuilt this vanished Romantic-era Madrid room by room around that story. Somewhere near you is the room kept for Larra alone.