Calle de Fernando Garrido

Opened around 1860 between Vallehermoso and Galileo, it began as an extension of Fernando el Católico and for decades carried labels that set it apart from the main street. In 1933 the Second Republic gave it its own identity with the name Fernando Garrido; the Franco regime renamed it after the founder of a far-right party, and in 1980 it recovered the federal republican who names it today. Fernando Garrido Tortosa was born in Cartagena in 1821. Raised in Cádiz, he came into contact with the ideas of Fourier, Saint-Simon and Louis Blanc, which won him over to a still-nascent socialism. He came to Madrid in 1845 to found newspapers and spread those theories; the trade cost him prison and repeated exile. He was a deputy for Cádiz and Seville, and quartermaster general of the Philippines during the First Republic, and he wrote a Historia de las clases trabajadoras. He died in Córdoba in 1883.