Calle de Antonio Díaz-Cañabate

Antonio Díaz-Cañabate earned a degree in Law, but his real trade was cultural journalism and the sketch of local customs, written with the close, attentive eye of someone who had learned from Azorín. His most remembered book, Historia de una taberna (1944), reconstructs Antonio Sánchez’s establishment on the calle del Mesón de Paredes. With José María de Cossío he worked from 1937 on the vast encyclopedia Los toros, where he took up the post left vacant by Miguel Hernández. In 1958 he took charge of the bullfighting reviews at ABC and filed more than a thousand columns until 1972. The City Council named him official chronicler of Madrid in 1966. The street occupies the final stretch of the old calle de Abtao, in the Niño Jesús district, and runs some 368 metres between the avenida del Mediterráneo and the calle de Arias Montano.