The exhibition invites visitors to explore 19th-century Madrid through the books that recounted, reflected, and imagined it. Through maps, engravings, treatises, and pamphlets, visitors discover how the city transformed during that period and the role that ideas, literature, and written memory played in that change.

The figure of Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, creator of the Library and chronicler of nineteenth-century Madrid, forms the backbone of the exhibition's narrative.