Calle de San Alberto
The name comes from an image of Saint Albert the Great placed in an altarpiece with two lanterns on the house at the corner with Plaza del Carmen, a property acquired by a Carmelite friar who became bishop of Quito. So it is recorded by Pedro de Répide, the authority for this attribution.
Barely fifty metres separate Plaza del Carmen from Calle de la Montera, right in the Sol district. Along them runs Calle de San Alberto, which long served as a pedestrian passage safe from the bustle of the carriages.
At its northern end stood the site of the church of San Luis Obispo, built between 1679 and 1689. A fire destroyed it in 1936; its Baroque doorway, by José Donoso, survived and was moved around 1950 to the nearby church of El Carmen.
The name honours Albert the Great, a Dominican friar and bishop of Regensburg, proclaimed Doctor of the Church in 1931 and patron of students of science. One loose end remains that no document can tie: it is not known for certain when the street took this name or what it was called before.
Its names
- Calle de San AlbertoDocumentada al menos from the 19th century
Sources (6)
- Por las calles de Madrid — Calle de San Alberto (blog, glosa de Répide)
- Wikidata Q28514271 — Calle de San Alberto, Madrid
- Wikipedia — Iglesia de San Luis Obispo (Madrid)
- Convento del Carmen Calzado (Madrid) — Wikipedia EN
- Los nombres de las calles de Madrid (2012), p. 265 — referenciado en Wikidata
- entredosamores.es — Madrid Antiguo, referencia a iglesia San Luis Obispo en esquina con San Alberto