Calle de Cervantes 2; Madrid, in the Barrio de las Letras. ... "Here lived and died Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, whose ingenuity admired the world. Died in 1616." ...

April 22 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of the Spanish novelist and playwright Miguel de Cervantes, who was likely born into a family of conversos, Spanish Jews forced in 1492 to ...