Calle de Antonio Maura

When the Jerónimos district was laid out in the last third of the 19th century, this street was born with a name honouring its residents: calle de la Lealtad, in memory of how the people of Madrid behaved on 2 May 1808. It begins at the plaza de la Lealtad and ends at the calle de Alfonso XII, right across from the Retiro. In 1925 the City Council changed the name to Maura’s. Antonio Maura y Montaner, born in Palma de Mallorca in 1853, served as prime minister five times and led the Royal Spanish Academy from 1913 until his death in 1925, the same year the street took his surname. At number 16 still stands the Antonio Maura House-Museum, which Secundino Zuazo built in 1922 and 1923 and which forms part of the Landscape of Light, a World Heritage Site since 2021. Two doors along, the Antonio Maura Foundation keeps his private archive.