Calle del Marqués de Zafra
The street is named after the Marquisate of Zafra, a title created by Philip V on 12 January 1703 for Lucas Jerónimo Yáñez de Barnuevo y San Clemente, a knight of the Order of Alcántara from Soria. No source proves that any holder of the marquisate owned the land on which the street was laid out.
Philip V created the Marquisate of Zafra on 12 January 1703, and the title went to Lucas Jerónimo Yáñez de Barnuevo, a knight of the Order of Alcántara from one of Soria’s Twelve Lineages. No evidence says its holders ever owned the land the street would later cross.
The street came late. The Paseo del Marqués de Zafra already marked the eastern edge of Fuente del Berro when, in 1926, the architect Enrique Pfitz drew up the Iturbe 2 development for Gregorio Iturbe’s cooperative. That is why you won’t find it in the great inventories of old Madrid: it opened after those chroniclers had closed their pages.
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- Marquesado de Zafra — Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
- Colonias históricas. Fuente del Berro (Colonia Iturbe 2) — Arte en Madrid
- Barrio de Fuente del Berro — Conocer Madrid (blog)
- Zafra, marqueses de — PARES (Portal de Archivos Españoles)
- Las tierras del Marqués — Asociación Cultural y Gastronómica Barderas del Moncayo
- Zafra y Madrid, dos ciudades unidas por el arte y la estirpe del marquesado de Encinares — Dialnet