Sex route through Madrid

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Historic brothels, old meeting places of Felipe IV with his lovers or places where the most used sex toys were bought in the past are some of the stops on the most erotic tour of the capital

Do you want to know how

Felipe IV

with his unbridled sexual life during his reign in the 17th century?

Where were the busiest halls of the capital located?

What were the most popular sex toys and where were they sold?

What happened to Cabaret Pasapoga and what personalities visited it?

These questions and many more anecdotes can be found on a guided tour offered by the Microplán Madrid leisure agency three days a week.

The historic

90-minute

begins at the

(San Roque, 9).

Legend has it that the secret meetings between Felipe IV and the very young novice Margarita de la Cruz, with whom he had fallen madly in love, took place there.

Seeing the king's intentions, the nun asked the prioress for help to get rid of him, so when the monarch wanted to visit her to

, Margarita

be dead in her cell, shrouded inside a coffin.

The king, after seeing the scene, fled.

The scandal reached the ears of the Holy Inquisition, which had to take action on the matter.

The nearby streets of La Ballesta and Desengaño are the next stops, where the busiest brothels in Madrid were located.

An old brothel located in

, which had 10 rooms, 2 bathrooms and a kitchen, served as inspiration for a group of actors and directors who, in 2009, turned each of the rooms into theaters where plays were performed. short-term related to prostitution.

Thus was born the project Microteatro por money, today a benchmark in Spanish alternative theater, which finally moved to Calle de Loreto y Chicote, 9.

Convent of San Plácido.

Stories of murders and crowded cabarets or famous

also part of this journey through time.

On Tudescos Street, next to Plaza de la Luna, one of the most notorious homicides of the early 20th century took place, that of

.

One summer morning in 1907, the well-known prostitute appeared with her throat cut at her home.

After observing the third floor left of number 15 and 17 of Calle de los Tudescos, witness of that crime still unsolved, we went to the ground floor of the old Avenida cinema (Gran Vía, 37), the place where the successful

, one of the most important entertainment venues in the country during the 40s and 50s of the last century.

Through its halls, any personality that appreciated at the time passed and artists such as Antonio Machín, Frank Sinatra or Rosa Morena performed on its stages.

There, the star

also became famous

, a transsexual who challenged Franco himself.

Erotic toys

The historic

(Calle Mayor, 59) has been open in the capital since 1578. It is the oldest business in Madrid, which supplied the Royal House with drugstores, pills and other products for decades.

The pharmacy is said to have also offered numerous erotic items for centuries, such as a steam dildo, the first vibrator, created in 1869 by the American physician George Taylor, or vintage penis rings.

Old Pharmacy of the Queen Mother.

The tour also passes, among other places, through the

(Duque de Alba, 4), a cinema where porn films were shown in the past.

Today, in addition to meetings, workshops and other events, it hosts the

project

, which has nothing to do with prostitution and much to do with poetry.

It is an initiative in which poems, some spicy, take center stage.

Its protagonists define it as "versocabaret", a more burlesque-type show (see programming here).

Due to the restrictions due to the pandemic, the face-to-face activity is carried out for a maximum of eight people, with the exception that the group is made up of people who know each other previously, and with the maximum possible security, mandatory mask and respect for distance of security.

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