Calle de Amado Nervo

Calle de Amado Nervo, in the Niño Jesús neighborhood, recalls a Mexican poet who spent his most fruitful years in Madrid, though the city knew him more as a diplomat than as a writer. He was born in Tepic in 1870 and entered modernism in Mexico City. In 1900 he traveled to Paris as a correspondent to cover the Universal Exposition, where he lived nine months under the same roof as Rubén Darío. He came to Madrid in 1905, newly appointed secretary of the Legation of Mexico, and stayed on calle Bailén, an address a plaque still marks. He wrote in the magazines of the moment and was seen at literary gatherings alongside Pérez Galdós, Unamuno and Juan Ramón Jiménez. In 1918 he received his credentials as Minister Plenipotentiary to Argentina and Uruguay. He died in Montevideo on 24 May 1919, and his remains rest in the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons, in Mexico City.