Calle de Berruguete

The name points to one of the great families of Spanish Renaissance art, originally from Paredes de Nava, in Palencia. The patriarch was Pedro Berruguete, a painter who brought the air of Italy to Castile; his son Alonso, trained in Florence within Michelangelo’s orbit, became the most influential sculptor of sixteenth-century Spain, with his elongated, tense figures that seemed to burn in the wood. The street belongs to the neighbourhood that also bears the surname, within the district of Tetuán, between Bravo Murillo, Francos Rodríguez and Ofelia Nieto. It is the smallest of Tetuán’s six and at the same time the most densely populated, a weave of low blocks and modest houses born north of the city, where a sculptor of monumental altarpieces lends his name to a street of humble homes.