Calle del Doctor Marco Corera

The title “doctor” marks a medical tribute, and here the person is documented. Luis Marco Corera (1851-1925) practiced medicine in Madrid, was also a writer and collector, and remained tied to the surgeon Federico Rubio y Galí, whose disciple and collaborator he was in several of his foundations. The calle del Doctor Marco Corera runs through Ciudad Jardín, in Chamartín, skirting one side of the Parque de Berlín. That park holds three original fragments of the Berlin Wall, given to Madrid in 1990 shortly after it fell, still bearing the graffiti they had when the wall still divided the city. Walking the street, you have on one side the name of a 19th-century doctor and, on the other, a piece of concrete that once stood at the center of Europe.