Calle de Carbonero y Sol

León Carbonero y Sol changed his own surname. Born in Villatobas (Toledo) in 1812 as León Carbonero y García-Arisco, he ended up signing as Carbonero y Sol after the papacy granted him the title of Count of Sol. He died in Madrid in 1902, almost ninety. He was a professor of Arabic, first in Toledo and later at the University of Seville, where he rose to dean of the Faculty of Arts. As an orientalist he published an Arabic dictionary and grammar, and stood among those who kept Spanish Arabic studies alive when the field was still that of a few. His other life was that of the militant pen: in 1852 he founded the magazine La Cruz, of which he was owner, editor and writer, and from its pages he defended Catholicism for decades. Calle de Carbonero y Sol was opened in El Viso as part of the project known in the early 20th century as the Parque Urbanizado. It runs between paseo de la Castellana and plaza de la República Argentina, in the heart of the district of rationalist villas.