Calle de Recaredo

The calle de Recaredo pays tribute to Reccared I, king of the Visigoths between 586 and 601 and son of Leovigild. His reign was marked by the abandonment of Arianism, the Christian confession that set the ruling Gothic minority apart from the Hispano-Roman majority, and the adoption of Catholicism. The shift was sealed publicly at the Third Council of Toledo in 589, where the monarch proclaimed his new faith before bishops and nobles and drew much of the Gothic aristocracy along with him. That conversion religiously unified a territory until then divided by creed and placed him among the founding figures of the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo. No record survives of when or exactly why the city council chose Reccared for this street.