Calle del General Díaz Porlier

Calle de Alcalá and Calle del General Oráa mark the two ends of this Salamanca-district street. The municipal agreement of 21 July 1880 named it simply calle del General Porlier; the first surname was added in 1980. Juan Díaz Porlier was at Trafalgar in 1805 and during the Peninsular War led guerrilla bands across Castile, Cantabria and Asturias under a nickname of his own invention, “el Marquesito”: he passed himself off as a nephew of the Marquess of la Romana so that volunteers would join him more readily. His boldest stroke came on the night of 18–19 September 1815, when with 864 men he seized A Coruña and proclaimed the Constitution of 1812. It did not last: betrayed by thirty-nine bribed sergeants, he was hanged on 3 October 1815 at the age of 26. The name vanished from the street map between 1941 and 1980, when it was called Hermanos Miralles. Mayor Tierno Galván gave Porlier his street back as the dictatorship came to an end.