Calle del Marqués del Duero

The Calle del Marqués del Duero recalls Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha, born in 1808 in Córdoba del Tucumán and brought to Spain as a child. In 1847 he led the expedition that took Porto and restored Queen Maria II of Portugal to her throne; the reward was this marquisate, granted in 1848. He died in 1874 at the battle of Abárzuza and rests in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men. The ground has its own story. Here stood the Real Pósito de la Villa, the municipal grain store built around 1745 and demolished around 1869. The marquis himself lived at number 3. At number 7 waits the Palacio de Zabálburu, built between 1872 and 1877 for the bibliophile Francisco de Zabálburu. Its library holds some 20,000 volumes spanning the 11th to the 19th century and still opens to researchers.