Calle de Gil de Santivañes
The street takes its name from the Gil de Santivañez family or neighbours, who owned land in the Ensanche before its formal opening. The City Council named it “Calle de Santibáñez” on 23 November 1874; the historic name was restored on 15 April 1953 with the current spelling.
This street was born with the Ensanche that Carlos María de Castro laid out in 1860, driven by the Marquis of Salamanca. The City Council named it on 23 November 1874 as Calle de Santibáñez, recalling the Gil de Santivañez family, who owned or lived on that land. It honours no great figure: it simply marks the owners of the ground.
Under Franco it was renamed in 1944 as Calle de los Hermanos García Noblejas, but that tribute soon shifted to a larger street and the old name returned on 15 April 1953.
Be wary of an attribution still in circulation: some records link the street to the Republican aviator Arturo González Gil de Santiváñez without a shred of evidence. It does not hold up, since a Francoist council would never have dedicated a street in 1953 to an officer who fell on the Republican side.
Its names
- Calle de Santibáñez1874–1944
- Calle de los Hermanos García Noblejas1944–1953
Sources (6)
- Madrid: sus viejas calles — Gil de Santivañes (Calle de)
- Calle de Gil de Santivañes — Madripedia
- Calle de los Hermanos García Noblejas — Wikipedia
- Arturo González Gil — Wikipedia (para contrastar y descartar la atribución errónea de Wikidata)
- Calle Gil de Santivañes — Wikidata Q52665603 (atribución P138 sin referencias)
- Hilario Peñasco y Carlos Cambronero, Las calles de Madrid (1889) — referencia en BNE