Calle de Fulgencio de Miguel

Behind this street stands a shopkeeper who became a councillor. As a young man Fulgencio de Miguel Alonso (1863-1935) worked in a grocery, and at twenty-four he opened his own on the plaza de Olavide, in the heart of Chamberí. There, among the working-class chisperos of the neighborhood, he earned the nickname “the councillor of the chisperos.” He served as councillor seven times and as deputy mayor. He championed the Olavide market, improved the lighting of the glorieta de Bilbao, and cleared the streets of Fuencarral and Hortaleza of the tangle of columns, lamps, and tram cables. In 1935 the city was preparing a tribute to unveil a plaque bearing his name in the very market he had defended. He died that same day. His name ended up on these new sidewalks of 1930s Tetuán, between Bravo Murillo and Francos Rodríguez.