Calle de Miguel Moya

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The street bears the name of Miguel Moya Ojanguren (Madrid, 1856 – San Sebastián, 1920), journalist, lawyer and member of parliament, founder and first president of the Madrid Press Association. The council gave it its current name around 1921–1922, after Moya’s death in August 1920. It was previously called calle de la Hita, after the country house that, according to tradition, Juan de Hita Buitrago, head of Madrid’s Holy Brotherhood in the time of the Catholic Monarchs, had on the site.

Calle de Miguel Moya barely reaches a hundred metres between Gran Vía and calle de Tudescos. Short as it is, its odd-numbered side is taken up entirely by a single building: the Press Palace, which the Madrid Press Association commissioned from Pedro Muguruza in 1924. When it opened in 1930 it was the tallest building on Gran Vía. Whoever reads the street sign has both things at once before them: the journalist’s name and the headquarters he raised. Miguel Moya began writing for the press at eighteen. He edited El Liberal, presided over the country’s first great newspaper trust and reached Congress as a deputy. His most lasting mark was the Madrid Press Association, which he founded and led from 1895 until his death. He also had a famous son-in-law: in 1911 Gregorio Marañón married his daughter Dolores.

Its names

  • Calle de la HitaAnterior a 1910 (probable 17th century - c. 1921)
  • Calle de Miguel Moyac. 1921-1922 hasta hoy
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