Calle de Avelino Montero Ríos

Andrés Avelino Montero Ríos y Villegas was born in Madrid in 1875, son of the Galician politician Eugenio Montero Ríos, and signed much of his work as Avelino Montero Villegas. He studied law and centred his work on the protection of minors: from the Senate he drove the 1918 law on which the country’s first Juvenile Courts Act was built. He served as Attorney General and died in 1923. Calle de Avelino Montero Ríos belongs to Bellas Vistas, in the Tetuán that grew in the late nineteenth century as a string of cheap houses put up by charitable building societies to house workers. A little over a hundred metres of roadway for the jurist who gave legal shape in Spain to the idea of trying minors apart from adults.