Calle del Cardenal Belluga
Commemorates Luis Antonio de Belluga y Moncada (Motril, 1662 – Rome, 1743), bishop of Cartagena, viceroy of Murcia and Valencia under Philip V, and cardinal from 1719. The street, in the Guindalera (Salamanca district), marks the northern edge of the Madrid Moderno colony (1890–1906).
The calle del Cardenal Belluga runs through the Guindalera neighbourhood and marks the northern edge of the Madrid Moderno colony, a handful of single-family houses built between 1890 and 1906 with Neo-Mudéjar and Art Nouveau façades on what was then the city’s eastern outskirts. Its streets were named after cities and high-ranking Church figures, among them the cardinal behind this one.
Luis Antonio de Belluga y Moncada (Motril, 1662 – Rome, 1743) was bishop of Cartagena and, from 1706, viceroy of Murcia and Valencia, a post from which he organised the Bourbon defence at the battle of the Huerto de las Bombas. Clement XI made him a cardinal in 1719.
His most curious mark was left in the Vega Baja del Segura, where he promoted the drainage of the flooded marshes and founded three towns from scratch: San Felipe Neri, San Fulgencio and Dolores.
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