Why I Chose Madrid For a Literary Retreat
Amy Poulton
December 5, 2025
This article first appeared in The Madrid Review blog. If I’m honest, I didn’t set out with Madrid in mind. When I first started thinking about where to host a literary retreat (a long weekend dedicated to reading, bookshop crawls and literary tours), there were plenty of obvious contenders. Paris, with its café-lined boulevards and ghosts of Hemingway. Dublin, the
