THE CENTENERA HOUSES. FROM TAILOR SHOP TO SECOND-HAND BOOKSHOP

Older generations still remember the Centenera brothers, Agustín and Cipriano, who ran a second-hand bookshop in Plaza de los Bandos until the late 1980s. Distinctive for their physical appearance and subjects of numerous anecdotes, they are figures deeply rooted in the urban mythology of an era.
However, few Salmantinos know that those Centeneras were the last representatives of a family of merchants who established themselves in our city, making a fortune in the clothing and fashion sector. They even had, as a branch in Madrid, a shop they named El Corte Inglés, which, over time, Ramón Areces would acquire to found his commercial empire.
27.5x15cm, €2.50