Calle Alonso Martos

Francisco Alonso Martos was born in Granada in 1887 and devoted much of his career to railway workers, as architect to the General Association of Spanish Railway Employees and Workers. Between 1923 and 1926, the association’s low-cost housing cooperative commissioned him to build a workers' colony a step away from Delicias station, then one of Madrid’s great terminals. He put up single-family houses with continuous façades and small gardens, turning onto Alonso Martos, the street that ended up bearing his name. The houses still stand, crouched among taller blocks, a few metres from the platform where the trains once arrived.