Manuel Azaña
did not dare to enter the Puerta del Sol when they went to proclaim the Republic and had to be pushed.
Louis Aragon
, the surrealist poet, Dadaist and communist, loved the square and wrote the
Chant de la Puerta del Sol
: "
It is the cry of the martyr people / that plunges you in the back / the dagger of the jondo
".
Jorge Luis Borges
stayed in a pension in Sol and said that the Puerta was a pittance, Cibeles was an unfortunate fountain and Madrid a city of sainete.
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