Calle de Eguilaz

This street in the Trafalgar neighborhood recalls Luis de Eguílaz (1830-1874), a playwright, zarzuela librettist and novelist born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. He had come to the city to study law and stayed on to write: first as a critic, then winning over the stage with comedies of manners and historical dramas. La cruz del matrimonio made him popular, and his greatest lyric success came with the zarzuela El molinero de Subiza, with music by Cristóbal Oudrid. The street runs between Sagasta and Luchana. On the corner with Luchana stands one of Madrid’s few Art Nouveau buildings, raised in 1907: ironwork, curves and plant motifs in a neighborhood of sober façades.