Street art · Madrid
Photo: Luis García (Zaqarbal), CC BY-SA 3.0
Rinconete y Cortadillo
By Federico Coullaut-Valera
This limestone frieze depicts Rinconete y Cortadillo, Cervantes' teenage pickpockets, alongside a cast of broad-brimmed rogues — a 19th-century architectural tribute to Spain's picaresque novel tradition carved directly into a Madrid facade.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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