Calle de Cristóbal Bordiú

Cristóbal Bordiú y Góngora was born in Zaragoza in 1798 and died in Madrid in 1872. He reached the Congress as deputy for Almería and Zaragoza, and in the capital held the directorship of Agriculture, Industry and Trade before spending a few months of 1852 at the Ministry of the Interior. He belonged to the Moderate Party. His best-remembered mark is the Mining Law of 1849, and from it comes much of the sense of his name at this point of the northern Ensanche: the School of Mining is nearby, so the sign and the institution keep each other company. Earlier, the street had been dedicated to the blessed María Ana de Jesús, until that title gave way to the engineer turned minister. Today the street crosses the Ríos Rosas district, in Chamberí, between Bravo Murillo and Agustín de Betancourt.