Imprenta Juan de la Cuesta

On the façade of the building at 87 Atocha Street, there is a striking bas-relief showing Don Quixote and Sancho Panza coming out of the printing press. Presiding over the whole is a half-length image of Cervantes. The work of Lorenzo Coullaut Valera, it was installed in 1905 to commemorate the printing press run by Juan de la Cuesta where, at the beginning of 1605, the first edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha was printed.

Text and photos by Antonio Castro Jiménez, Chronicler of the City of Madrid.