Believe all the good things you read in the other reviews, whether about Triana, the apartment, its location, or Rocío herself! In our case in particular she made sure that the dishwasher which had given up the ghost was replaced immediately.

There is one thing to add about the ease of access to tourist sites. These are all monuments of money, privilege and power. But less than half a minute’s walk from the apartment, just around the corner, is something more important. At the side of the door of calle San Jorge 23 is a memorial plaque to Melchor Rodríguez García, also known as el ángel rojo. During the civil war, at a time when there had been corpses of civilians shot down in cold blood lying in the streets of Triana, he had saved the lives of an uncountable number of people (on both sides of the harsh political divide) from the massacres in and around Madrid. And he did this at very real personal risk. To use the words of a young relative of ours, wise beyond her years, when speaking of the farming family which had saved her grandparents during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania: When everything was absolutely wrong he did what was absolutely right.