Calle de Sotomayor

The name Sotomayor comes from a noble title and, behind it, from a politician who governed for barely two months. Carlos Martínez de Irujo y McKean (1802-1855) inherited the dukedom through marriage and came to sign as consort Duke of Sotomayor. 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.