Calle de Ángeles García-Madrid

Ángeles García-Madrid (1918-2015) was a poet and memoirist. During the Civil War she worked as a tram fare collector, a job she shared with Julia Conesa, one of the so-called Thirteen Roses. In May 1939 she was arrested and sentenced to twelve years in prison for “aiding the rebellion.” She passed through Ventas jail, where she witnessed the execution of those young women, before winning parole in 1942. Much of her work grew out of that experience: Al quiebro de mis espinas: poemas desde la cárcel and, later, memoirs such as Réquiem por la libertad, where she recorded the women imprisoned alongside her. The city council approved the street in 2018, in a district with very few women’s names. It runs through Adelfas, between Luis Peidró and Barrilero, near Pacífico, the neighbourhood where she lived.