Calle de Goya
The street takes its name from Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828), first court painter to Charles IV from 31 October 1799. The City Council named it while laying out the eastern extension based on Castro’s 1860 plan, developed by José de Salamanca.
Calle de Goya was born as one of the cross-axes of Madrid’s eastern extension. In 1863 José de Salamanca obtained a licence to develop the first fourteen blocks, and work began the following year, taking calle de Serrano as its axis.
The land the street now runs over belonged to the Campos Elíseos, pleasure gardens opened in 1864. Among their attractions was a bullring that burned to the ground on 18 July 1881.
The name honours Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, who reached Madrid in 1775 to design cartoons for the Royal Tapestry Factory. He became court painter to Charles IV and, from 31 October 1799, first court painter. He died in exile, in Bordeaux, in 1828.
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