The passageway was the ideal place for “clashes of swords” with which to launder honor and the setting used by Valle-Inclán to provoke the imprisonment of Max Estrella, back in 1920 in his “Bohemian Lights”. Its location next to the Eslava Theater and the Church of San Ginés has provided a large clientele for many years who, after the performance or mass, drank a chocolate with churros. Opening until late at night, it attracted life-savers, night owls, intellectuals and revelers, as well as numerous artists, film and theater actors, poets and writers, who found a meeting point here. Today it is still a very popular place.