Calle del Marqués de Torrelaguna

Castilla

Honors the title of Marquess of Torrelaguna, granted in 1895 to Martín Esteban y Muñoz, senator and deputy, whose name in turn points back to the Madrid town of Torrelaguna.

The marquisate was created by the regent queen María Cristina in 1895, during Alfonso XIII’s minority. The town of Torrelaguna that gives it its name lies in the northern mountains of Madrid. The first marquess was a senator and deputy in the Cortes, and a knight of the Legion of Honor. In the Senate he took part in committees on railway lines, among them one for the Madrid railway with a branch to Torrelaguna. He died in 1899, four years after receiving the distinction, and was succeeded by his son Eugenio Esteban, the second marquess, also a senator, who held the title until 1943.