Calle de Miguel Ángel
Honors Michelangelo Buonarroti, the artist of the Italian Renaissance, on a street opened in the late 19th century among grand town houses.
The name pays tribute to Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Florentine who carved the David and painted the vault of the Sistine Chapel. The street was laid out around 1889 as a modern opening, between the vanished Paseo del Cisne and the Paseo de la Castellana, amid the growth of the bourgeois Madrid raising its residences north of the city.
It soon filled with mansions. Joaquín Sorolla had a studio here before building his own town house on the nearby Paseo del General Martínez Campos. The street also holds a memory of women’s education: at number 12 stood the Residencia de Señoritas, the women’s section linked to the Residencia de Estudiantes, where generations of women students were educated in the first decades of the 20th century.
It forms part of the so-called Golden Triangle, the area where the aristocracy and the upper bourgeoisie settled at the turn of the century.