Calle de Antonio Pérez

Few courtiers of the Golden Age lived so dizzying a fall as Antonio Pérez. He inherited the office of royal secretary from his father and rose to be secretary of state to Philip II, weaving dispatches and confidences for more than a decade. His name was marked by the murder of Juan de Escobedo in Madrid in 1578, at the hands of hired men. The shadow of the crime brought about his downfall, until in 1590 he escaped and took refuge in France and England, where he fuelled with his memoirs the propaganda against the king who had raised him up. He died in Paris, poor and far from the country hunting for him. The street was opened with the El Viso estate in the 1930s.