Calle de Sotomayor

Vallehermoso

Recalls Carlos Martínez de Irujo y McKean, consort Duke of Sotomayor and Prime Minister for two months in 1847.

Martínez de Irujo (1802-1855) inherited the dukedom through marriage. He had been born in Washington, where his father represented Spain before the newly born United States. A man of the Moderate Party, he led a brief conciliatory cabinet in 1847 until the pressure of General Serrano brought him down. The street is short and one-way, wedged between Guzmán el Bueno and the calle del General Ibáñez de Ibero, in the heart of Vallehermoso.