Calle de la Poeta Ángela Figuera

Ángela Figuera Aymerich was born in Bilbao in 1902 and stands among the voices of the “uprooted” poetry of the early postwar years. She was one of the first women in Vizcaya to earn a high-school diploma, studied Arts despite her father’s opposition, and won a competitive teaching chair in 1933. The war took that future from her: she lost the post when the fighting ended and years later worked at the National Library and on the mobile libraries that carried reading to Madrid’s outskirts. She began publishing late, past forty, with dry, combative verse about hunger, fear and motherhood under the bombs. Her poem “Bombardeo” holds the memory of the war lived in Madrid. The street was called Calle del Bosque until 1971, when it came to honor a general of the rebel side. In 2017 the city council renamed it under the historical memory law, and the Supreme Court confirmed the change in December 2022.