Calle de Santiago Bernabéu
Honors Santiago Bernabéu Yeste (1895-1978), player and later president of Real Madrid for more than three decades, who drove the construction of the stadium that bears his name.
A Real Madrid forward and later its front-office man, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste took over the club presidency in 1943 and held it until his death, more than three decades later. His tenure saw the golden age of five straight European Cups, with Di Stéfano, Gento and Puskás on the pitch.
His most visible obsession was brick and mortar. In the late 1940s he built a concrete stadium in the north of the city, which opened in December 1947. For years it was called the Nuevo Estadio Chamartín; in 1955, with its founder still alive, it took his surname.
The street runs through El Viso, the Rationalist colony of small white villas, a stone’s throw from the stadium.