Errores en la historia de Madrid

Madrid has always been a historical, cultural and literary attraction, but at the same time, the dark object of desire of those who have tried to disfigure the important and minor history. This has left us a trail of lies, hoaxes, clichés, half-truths and half-lies, where dark interests, partisan grievances and, above all, the imagination of the people have coincided to create false arguments, distort the truth of things and mythologize aspects of everyday life. Madrid has carried on the back of the chronicle that is written day by day, events that never happened, but that acquired their own nature; imagination overwhelmed by word of mouth transmission of gossip and limitless imagination; popular fantasies that came to have assumed verisimilitude, although not contrasted; hoaxes, many of them harmful to the image of the Villa, which have been taken as real; lies, that repeated a thousand times, become indisputable beliefs; half-truths, which are the most lacerating lies, a whole story that is addressed throughout the pages of this book, as a kind of reparation for the past and present identity of this city; a way to remove the veil from the gossip of any age.