Calle de Benito de Castro

Calle de Benito de Castro, in the Fuente del Berro district, belongs to a layout that took shape in stages between 1920 and 1940 on what was then land on the city’s fringe. It forms part of the Colonia Iturbe, raised by the Propiedad Cooperativa cooperative under the direction of Gregorio Iturbe. The architect Enrique Pfitz and the engineer José Urroz designed the colony in 1925, and the first phase opened in May 1926. The most likely name is that of Benito de Castro Rueda (1875–1958). He began as municipal architect of Medina del Campo and in 1908 was appointed provincial architect of Segovia, a city that took up much of his career as diocesan and acting municipal architect. He also numbered among the founders of the Segovia pawnshop. A word of caution is in order, because the attribution limps. Neither Répide nor the city’s historic street register preserves any municipal resolution tying this street to Castro Rueda. The identification carries low certainty.