Going down Calle Cava, we find the peculiar neighborhood of San Lorenzo, a place where Antonio Muñoz Molina spent his childhood and which becomes another protagonist in his work, with its cobbled streets, white houses, churches and palaces … .

The author recreates in this neighborhood a literary space that is a key element to understand and interpret the action of the story, identifying specific spaces in the neighborhood such as the Cava gardens (both in Full Moon and in The Polish Horseman), the Church of San Lorenzo, the Puerta de Granada, the cobbled streets or its viewpoints.

The Cava gardens (both in Full Moon and in the Polish Rider).

(…) In the Cava gardens, around the statue of Second Lieutenant Rojas Navarrete, who looks straight north just as General Orduña looks south […] “

Antonio Muñoz Molina. The Polish Horseman.

The Church of San Lorenzo and the Puerta de Granada.

(…) Covered by ivy up to the cross of its pinnacle, the belfry of the church of San Lorenzo remains impossibly standing, but the pillar of the wall, next to the Granada gate […] “

Antonio Muñoz Molina. The Polish Horseman.

The cobbled and dark streets.