Calle de Juana Doña

Before 2018 this street was called Batalla de Belchite. The Arganzuela council voted to rename it in tribute to Juana Doña Jiménez (Madrid, 1918 – Barcelona, 2003), who lived for years in the district. Doña joined the Communist Youth as a teenager and fought in the Civil War. In 1947 a court sentenced her to death; the sentence was commuted to thirty years in prison, and she spent about fifteen behind bars, in two stretches, teaching other inmates to read. Her partner, Eugenio Mesón, was executed in 1941. Once free she was active in the Workers' Commissions, sat on the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and founded the Movement for the Liberation and Equality of Women. She left several books, among them Desde la noche y la niebla and Querido Eugenio, written for her executed partner.