Calle de Félix Boix
Honors Félix Boix y Merino (1858-1932), a civil engineer, director of the Northern Railway Company of Spain, and a collector whose donation of art helped form the Municipal Museum of Madrid.
Félix Boix y Merino (Barcelona, 1858 - Madrid, 1932) earned his degree in civil engineering in 1881 and in 1904 joined the Northern Railway Company of Spain, one of the country’s largest rail firms. In 1908 he took over its management, a post he held until his death, and between 1918 and 1919 he also ran the Canal de Isabel II.
His other calling was collecting. He gathered prints, ceramics, and paintings, and in 1925 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando with a lecture on lithography in Spain. In 1927 he donated to the city prints, photographs, oil paintings, and porcelain that formed the core of the Municipal Museum, housed in the former Hospicio and opened in 1929.
The calle de Félix Boix crosses the Nueva España neighborhood, within the area known as Costa Fleming. Today it is a lively, commercial street of bars and terraces.