Calle de Fernán Núñez
Recalls the ducal house of Fernán Núñez, whose most famous member was Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos, an enlightened 18th-century diplomat.
The house of Fernán Núñez, an Andalusian line, rose during the 18th century. Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos, sixth count, was ambassador in Lisbon and then in Paris, where he witnessed the outbreak of the French Revolution at close range. A man of the Enlightenment, bibliophile and traveler, he left behind a Life of Charles III, the monarch he served.
The surname appears elsewhere in Madrid, at the Palace of Fernán Núñez on calle de Santa Isabel, now home to a railway foundation. The calle de Fernán Núñez in the Hispanoamérica district honors the same lineage, with no direct link to that building.