Calle de Gabriel Lobo

Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega (1555-1615), a Madrid man of minor nobility, served as a guard to Philip II and Philip III and trained alongside Alonso de Ercilla, author of La Araucana, whose mark would shape his own epic work. In 1588 he published the Cortés valeroso, which years later he expanded as La Mexicana, on the conquest of Mexico, in the passage toward the theater that Lope de Vega would soon impose. The calle de Gabriel Lobo was not always so named: it was once the calle de San Pablo, until 1901, before the estate of rationalist villas of El Viso sprang up around it in the 1930s, today one of the most sought-after addresses in Madrid.