Calle de Luis Carandell
Luis Carandell Robusté (Barcelona, 1929 — Madrid, 2002), journalist and parliamentary chronicler, lived four decades in Madrid and was named Adopted Son in 1980. The street was created in 2025-2026 when the Club Santiago plot, the last undeveloped parcel of the Guindalera (Salamanca district), was built up; it had no earlier name.
Calle de Luis Carandell was born only yesterday. It came out of the project that developed the Club Santiago plot, the last undeveloped parcel of the Guindalera, whose handover was signed on 17 February 2026. The street begins at Avenida de Bonn and ends at Avenida de la Guindalera.
The sign remembers Luis Carandell Robusté, born in Barcelona in 1929 and a Madrilenian by adoption until his death in 2002. His byline became familiar at the newsstands: in 1968 he launched the “Celtiberia Show” column in Triunfo magazine, an ironic portrait of the country, and during the Transition he was a leading parliamentary chronicler. Between 1985 and 1987 he read the weekend news on TVE’s Telediario.
The City Council named him Adopted Son in 1980. In 2003 the Senate gave his name to the Luis Carandell Prize for Parliamentary Journalism.
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- Luis Carandell — Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
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- El Senado convoca la XV edición del Premio Luis Carandell de Periodismo Parlamentario — APMadrid