Calle Cardenal Solís
Honours Francisco de Solís y Folch de Cardona, an eighteenth-century Madrid prelate who became a cardinal and archbishop of Seville.
The name recalls Francisco de Solís y Folch de Cardona, born in Madrid in 1713 into a family of the high court nobility. He studied in Salamanca before turning to the Church: bishop of Córdoba and, from 1755, archbishop of Seville. Benedict XIV made him a cardinal in 1756, and he died in Rome in 1775, during the conclave that elected Pius VI.
From his youth came a physical mark that explains his iconography. Fencing with the future king Charles III, he lost his left eye, and for that reason all his portraits show him only in right profile.
The street, in the Palos de la Frontera neighbourhood, came late to the map: at the end of the nineteenth century it was still unnamed and privately owned, with a washing place known as San Dámaso. Today it runs between Embajadores and Bernardino de Obregón.