Calle de Istúriz

This Cuatro Caminos street bears the surname of Francisco Javier de Istúriz Montero, a Cádiz man of the late eighteenth century who reached almost every summit of nineteenth-century Spanish politics. He presided over the Congress of Deputies, the Senate, and, three times over, the Council of Ministers. His most remembered government was short and ended badly. In May 1836, the regent María Cristina placed him at the head of the Executive in Mendizábal’s stead. Istúriz dissolved the Cortes, but in August a group of sergeants who mutinied at the Royal Site of La Granja de San Ildefonso held the regent and forced her to restore the Constitution of 1812. That mutiny brought down his government. The road runs from the calle de los Artistas to Hernani, in the grid layout of the Tetuán that grew at the end of the nineteenth century.