Calle de Agustín de Foxá

The name honours Agustín de Foxá y Torroba (Madrid, 1906-1959), 3rd Count of Foxá, poet, novelist, journalist and diplomat. He studied law and entered the diplomatic service in 1930, with early postings in Sofia and Bucharest; later he represented Spain in various capitals. From that travelling trade came a sensory poetry, alert to light and landscape, and a Madrid evoked with aristocratic nostalgia. His best-known book grew out of the Civil War: Madrid, de corte a checa (1938), a fictionalised portrait of the city’s collapse. The Royal Spanish Academy elected him a member in 1956, though he died without reading his inaugural address. The street runs through the Castilla neighbourhood, beside Chamartín station, today renamed in memory of Clara Campoamor. Through it the city reaches the trains to the north, a few metres from the name of a writer who devoted whole pages to Madrid.