Calle de Ramón de Santillán

Ramón de Santillán González was born in Lerma, in Burgos, in 1791. He served in the army for years and left it in 1825, as a lieutenant colonel, to enter the Treasury administration, where he rose to hold the ministry twice. In 1845, together with Alejandro Mon, he drove the tax reform that bears both surnames, the Mon-Santillán reform, which brought order to the fiscal chaos inherited from the Ancien Régime and raised the country’s first modern tax system. Its main features held until 1900. In 1849 he was named first governor of the Banco de San Fernando, which in 1856 became the Bank of Spain. He remained at its head until his death in 1863: fourteen years in the post, and he is the governor who has led the institution the longest. The street runs through Hispanoamérica, built up from the 1970s on the former land of Chamartín de la Rosa.