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

Older people still remember the Centenera brothers, Agustín and Cipriano, who ran asecond-hand bookshop in the Plaza de los Bandos until the late eighties of the last century. Unique in their physical appearance and protagonists of multiple anecdotes, they are characters rooted in the urban mythology of an era. However, few Salamancans know that those Centenera were the last representatives of a family of merchants who took root in our city, making a fortune in the clothing and fashion sector, and came to have, as a branch in Madrid, a store which they named El Corte Inglés and which, in time, Ramón Areces would acquire to found his commercial empire. The Notebooks are sold for 2.5 euros at the Tourism shop in the Plaza Mayor, and the Museum of Commerce itself.