Calle de Ramón de Aguinaga
The street bears the name of Ramón de Aguinaga Arrechea (Lesaca, Navarre, c. 1852 – Madrid, 1933), a civil engineer who ran the Canal de Isabel II and led the building of the Chamberí elevated water tower (1907–1911). The street runs through the Fuente del Berro neighborhood, in the Salamanca district.
Ramón de Aguinaga Arrechea was born in Lesaca, Navarre, around 1852 and died in Madrid in 1933. In 1897 the State handed him the running of the Anglo-Vasco-Navarro railway, and he also directed the works of the Bidasoa railway, whose first stretch linked the Endarlaza mines with Irún.
In Madrid he came to run the Canal de Isabel II. Together with Diego Martín Montalvo and Luis Moya Idígoras he raised the Chamberí elevated water tower, at Santa Engracia 125: a twelve-sided polyhedral water tower 36 meters tall, brought into service in 1911. That geometric volume houses today the Sala Canal de Isabel II.
Aguinaga also promoted the Guadarrama Electric Railway and chaired the Santander-Mediterráneo Railway Company. It is not recorded when the street was named after him.
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