Accessible via Plaza Mayor through the Arch of the Cutlers. Lined with tall façades in yellow tones, with narrow balconies and green shutters, it represents old Madrid. The whole of this area, an adjacent labyrinth of streets stretching south from Plaza Mayor, with its old-fashioned shops, bodegas with walls covered in barrels and old bull-fighting posters and elderly Castilians with lined faces and the bearing of aristocrats, sums up the inimitable character of a city passionate for tradition.