Calle de Ricardo Goizueta

The calle de Ricardo Goizueta was laid out in 1934 over the old pastureland of the Arganzuela, and took his name because Goizueta was among the owners of the ground it crossed. The name was fixed before the Civil War. Ricardo Goizueta Díaz was born around 1883 or 1884 in Navarre, into a well-off family, and died in Pamplona in 1979. He was an industrial engineer and businessman: he took part in the development of Los Remedios, in Seville, and in late 1934 came to run an oil company in Gibraltar. That connection gave him an unexpected role during the war, when he acted as unofficial representative of the Francoist side on the Rock until he lost Franco’s favor in 1937. The street runs through the factory heart of Legazpi, near where the Manzanares and the old Arganzuela slaughterhouse ordered the life of the neighborhood.