Calle de Amador de los Ríos

Honors José Amador de los Ríos (1816-1878), historian and critic of Spanish literature, author of a history of Madrid and the first major history of the Jews of Spain.

Before 1903 this short, stately street bore the name of the poet Ángel Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, who already had another street downtown. The change dedicated it to José Amador de los Ríos, born in Baena in 1816 and one of the great figures of 19th-century Spanish scholarship. He held the chair of critical history of Spanish literature at the Universidad Central. His work produced a monumental Historia crítica de la literatura española and the first comprehensive study of the Sephardic communities of the Peninsula. In 1868 he became director of the newly created National Archaeological Museum. The street is barely a stretch between Alcalá Galiano and Fernando el Santo, in the heart of Almagro.