Calle de Emilio Carrere

Emilio Carrere was the truest voice of the Madrid of cafés, literary gatherings and poets who lived off verse and the boarding house. Born in 1881, he took a clerk’s job at the Court of Auditors in his youth and gave the rest to poetry, journalism and the night. His poem La musa del arroyo was recited from memory across the city, and he was regarded as the last great Madrid bohemian. His name survives above all through La torre de los siete jorobados, a 1920 serial that blended detective intrigue, the occult and local humor, which Edgar Neville brought to the screen in 1944. The street was once named Pasaje de Vallehermoso. In 1949 the city council dedicated it to him: a short street in the Arapiles neighborhood, between Vallehermoso and Galileo.