House-Museum of Lope de Vega

Lope de Vega, the Golden Age writer, bought this sixteenth-century Madrid house in 1610, and his former home is now a writer's house museum, known in Spanish as the Casa-Museo de Lope de Vega. The displays include three of his manuscripts, owned by the Real Academia Española.

The Academy, the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language, purchased the house in 1930. Under the guidance of Agustín González de Amezúa y Mayo, it restored the building and opened it as a museum in 1935, the same year the house was declared a national monument. Today it is protected as a Bien de Interés Cultural, Spain's designation for heritage of particular cultural importance.