Embajadores is an administrative neighborhood (barrio) of Madrid, belonging to the Centro District.

The area lies in the southern part of the Centro District, the later located in the centre of the city, as its name indicates.

[2] Originally, the soil on which the current neighborhood was built was a sparsely populated area to the south of the medieval city limits of Madrid.

The urban grid did not evolve much since then; as until the mid 19th century, when the plaza de Tirso de Molina was created over the plot made available by the demolition of the convent of La Merced, no noticeable change happened in the grid.

[5] The Rastro open air flea market takes place in the section between the plaza del Cascorro and the Ronda de Toledo on Sundays.