Calle del General Lacy

Palos de la Frontera·Delicias

It honors Luis Lacy y Gautier (1775-1817), a general of the Peninsular War executed in 1817 for rising against Ferdinand VII in defense of the Constitution of 1812.

The name recalls Luis Lacy y Gautier (1775-1817), a soldier born in San Roque, near Cádiz, son of an officer of Irish descent. He served in the Peninsular War and rose to captain general of Catalonia and Galicia. What made him a figure of liberalism was his end. In April 1817 he led an uprising near Barcelona to restore the Constitution of 1812, repealed by Ferdinand VII. The plot failed. Captured and taken to Bellver Castle in Palma de Mallorca, he was shot on 5 July and his body thrown into the fortress moat. That corpse then had a history as restless as his life. He was nicknamed “the general of the six graves” because his remains changed place half a dozen times to the rhythm of political swings, until they finally rested in a mausoleum in Barcelona. The Calle del General Lacy runs between Méndez Álvaro and Ramírez de Prado, beside the old Delicias station.