Calle Alonso del Barco

The name pays tribute to Alonso del Barco, a painter born in Madrid around 1645 and dead by 1685, a landscapist in the heart of the Spanish Baroque. He learned the trade from José Antolínez and could paint landscapes with no model before him, from memory, with a range that drew admiration. Del Barco worked a great deal, for convents and for private houses in Madrid, yet not a single painting of his has been identified with certainty to this day. When he was widowed he took holy orders and ended up as a canon in Covarrubias, in Burgos. The street runs from the Ronda de Valencia to the calle de Sebastián Elcano, along a stretch of Palos de la Frontera that began industrial and is now mostly housing.