Calle de Carlos Latorre

The name pays tribute to Carlos Latorre (1799-1851), the figure who dominated the Spanish tragic stage during Romanticism. Trained for nearly ten years in Parisian exile in the technique of the French school, he returned to Madrid in 1823 and made his debut in Shakespeare’s Othello. From then on he never let go of the top rank in tragedy. His most remembered night came in 1844: he was the first Don Juan to speak José Zorrilla’s verses at the premiere of Don Juan Tenorio, the role that comes back to life in theatres every November. He died in Madrid and rests in the San Justo cemetery, beside Larra and Espronceda. The street that remembers him runs between Garellano and Castillo Piñeiro, in a Bellas Vistas that grew without any prior layout to the left of the old road to France, today Bravo Murillo.