Calle de Santa Juliana

The name recalls Juliana of Nicomedia, a young Christian from what is now northwest Turkey, martyred around the year 304 during the Roman persecutions. Tradition has her betrothed to a senator named Eleusius; she agreed to marry only if her suitor converted, and when he refused, she was tortured and beheaded. Legend later added her most famous episode: a fight with the devil, who appears to her disguised as an angel of light and whom she ends up defeating and chaining. That is why medieval art painted her with a demon bound at her feet. The street belongs to Bellas Vistas, a neighbourhood built at the turn of the twentieth century west of the old road to France, today Bravo Murillo. As in other streets of the sector, the map filled with dedications to women saints without any record surviving of why Juliana was chosen.