Calle de Alcalá Galiano
Recalls Antonio Alcalá Galiano, a nineteenth-century liberal politician and orator from Cádiz.
Behind the Colón towers, between the calle de Monte Esquinza and the paseo de la Castellana, a short, almost hidden street bears the name of Antonio Alcalá Galiano, born in Cádiz in 1789 and dead in Madrid in 1865.
He was the son of a sailor killed at Trafalgar and soon left the military for politics. His voice made him famous: in the gatherings of the Fontana de Oro he stirred up the radical liberals of the Constitutional Triennium. After exile in England, his path shifted from revolutionary fervor to moderation.
On the night of April 10, 1865, students rioted in what became known as the Night of San Daniel. The next day, arguing about those disturbances, he suffered a stroke and died on the spot.