Imprenta Juan de la Cuesta

This building, situated at the number 7 of the San Eugenio Street, housed in the 17th century, Juan de la Cuesta’s workshop, where the second part of El Quixote was printed.

In 1586, in Madrid’s Atocha street (a place that today houses the Sociedad Cervantina), Imprenta de Pedro de Madrigal (Pedro Madrigal’s printer) was opened. After he died, his widow continued his work, but the printers were run by Juan de la Cuesta. He was the one who, in 1605, published the first edition of The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha, the masterpiece of Spanish literature.

In 1609, this workshop moved to a near-by street San Eugenio 7, corner with Santa Isabel Street, and it was there, in 1615, where the second part of El Quixote was printed, as you can see from the plaque placed there in 1905, to commemorate the third centenary of the publication of Miguel de Cervantes’s work.