Calle de Jordán

Trafalgar

Honors Esteban Jordán, a sculptor of the Castilian Renaissance and court sculptor to Philip II, rather than the Holy Land river the name evokes.

The name coincides with the river Jordan of the Holy Land, where Christ was baptized. The sculptor settled in Valladolid and was connected by marriage to the Berruguete family. He became court sculptor to Philip II, working directly for the king, and specialized in altarpieces. The king commissioned him to build the main altarpiece of the monastery of Montserrat, which French troops burned during the Peninsular War. Valladolid still keeps a Lament over the Dead Christ of his, from around 1580. The street is a modern opening in the Trafalgar district of Chamberí, running between the extension of Fuencarral and Plaza de Olavide, near the Glorieta de Quevedo.