Calle Bellver
It honours Ricardo Bellver, the sculptor who had his studio here and made the Retiro’s Fallen Angel.
On the corner with Marqués de Viana stood the studio of Ricardo Bellver, a Madrid sculptor, and that is where this short street in Berruguete takes its name.
Bellver made one of Madrid’s most singular works: the Fallen Angel, which has risen above a fountain in the Retiro since 1885. It shows Lucifer at the instant of his fall, writhing among serpents, and is often cited as one of the few public statues in the world dedicated to the devil. The fountain sits at around 666 metres above sea level, the number of the Beast; the coincidence is real, though Madrid does average that altitude.