Calle Alfonso Rodríguez Santamaría

Behind the name is a Madrid journalist born in 1879. Alfonso Rodríguez Santamaría worked alongside Torcuato Luca de Tena and rose to deputy editor of ABC in 1918. In April 1935 he was elected president of the Madrid Press Association. His term barely lasted a year. After the military coup of July 1936 he was arrested by uncontrolled groups, accused of keeping compromising documents, and on 20 August he was shot in the Dehesa de la Villa. The street took his name on 27 July 1941, when these blocks of El Viso had already passed from Chamartín de la Rosa into the municipality of Madrid. After the war, his colleagues created the Rodríguez Santamaría journalism prize, which first honored the best work of the year and since 1963 recognizes a whole career.