Calle del General Margallo
Recalls Juan García-Margallo, the general who died in 1893 at the fort of Cabrerizas Altas during the Rif war that took his surname.
The surname belongs to Juan García-Margallo y García (Montánchez, Cáceres, 1839 - Melilla, 1893), a career soldier who distinguished himself in the African War of 1859-1860, where he won his first Cross of San Fernando at the taking of Tetuán.
In 1891 he was named military governor of Melilla. The conflict broke out when the building of a fort near ground revered by the Rif tribes set off attacks on the city. On 28 October 1893 Margallo died defending the fort of Cabrerizas Altas, after advancing barely a hundred meters at the head of his men. The fighting of those weeks is still known as the Margallo war. His surname passed to the street maps of several cities, and the calle del General Margallo is among the streets that shaped the first core of the Tetuán neighborhood.