Calle de Julio Camba
Julio Camba Andreu (Villanueva de Arosa, 1882 or 1884 – Madrid, 28 February 1962) was a Galician journalist and writer, a master of the travel chronicle and the humorous column. The City Council named this street after him in 1964, under mayor the Count of Mayalde, replacing the previous name. The street runs between calle de Alcalá and avenida de los Toreros, in the Guindalera neighbourhood.
At thirteen, Julio Camba Andreu hid on a ship and crossed the Atlantic as a stowaway. He had been born in Villanueva de Arosa, in Pontevedra, and landed in Argentina with nothing but the urge to leave. There he mixed with anarchist circles until the country expelled him in 1902 and sent him back to Spain.
Back home he traded activism for the typewriter. He wrote for El País and ABC, but his true trade was watching the world and telling it: correspondent in Constantinople, Berlin, Rome, Paris, London and New York. From each posting he drew chronicles gathered into books such as La rana viajera (1920) and La ciudad automática (1934); his praise of fine dining, La casa de Lúculo (1929), remains the most reprinted.
He spent his final years living at Madrid’s Hotel Palace, until his death in 1962. The City Council named this street after him in 1964, replacing its former name, the Avenida Circular.
Its names
- Avenida CircularAnterior a 1964