Calle del Doce de Octubre
The street takes its name from 12 October 1492, the date of Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean, declared a national holiday by the Law of 15 June 1918 under Antonio Maura’s government. It was earlier called Gómez de Baquero, after the journalist and literary critic Eduardo Gómez de Baquero (Madrid, 1866–1929), known by the pen name Andrenio. The original naming dates from 1930; the change, from 1931.
Calle del Doce de Octubre entered the street register in 1930 under another name: Gómez de Baquero, in honor of a Madrid literary critic who had died the year before. Eduardo Gómez de Baquero signed his reviews as Andrenio, and under that pen name wrote for decades in La Época, El Imparcial and El Sol. In 1925 he took a seat in the Royal Spanish Academy.
Barely a year after it was named, the street lost that name. In 1931 the city council renamed it Doce de Octubre, marking the day Columbus set foot in the Caribbean in 1492. That date had been declared a national holiday by a law of June 1918, passed during Antonio Maura’s government under the reign of Alfonso XIII. The change came amid the proclamation of the Second Republic, when Madrid reorganized much of its street map.
The critic keeps a presence on the map: a calle de Gómez de Baquero still survives today in the Canillas district. Doce de Octubre, for its part, marks the southern edge of the Ibiza district, in a grid of blocks laid out under the 1860 Castro Plan.
Its names
- Calle de Gómez de Baquero1930
- Calle del Doce de Octubre1931
Sources (6)
- Calle del Doce de Octubre — Madripedia
- Eduardo Gómez de Baquero — Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
- Eduardo Gómez de Baquero — Real Academia Española
- Fiesta Nacional de España — Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
- Ibiza (Madrid) — Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
- Calle Gómez de Baquero — Callejero de Madrid