Calle Diego Bahamonde

Diego Miguel Rodríguez de Bahamonde y Jaime de Aragón carried two titles: sixth Marquis of Zafra and second Viscount of Matamala. Born in Granada and dead in Madrid in 1877, he was rector of the Central University of Madrid in two terms, one in April 1865 and another from 1866 to 1868. He took the post the very day the government dismissed Juan Manuel Montalbán, an ousting that sparked the “Night of San Daniel.” No role in the repression that followed is attributed to him. The street sits in the Fuente del Berro neighborhood, surrounded by names that seem to gather a whole family in the street map. A few steps away stand the Paseo del Marqués de Zafra, the Calle del Vizconde de Matamala and the Calle de Concepción Bahamonde. The northern stretch of the Iturbe 2 development, built between 1926 and 1929, still keeps a narrow layout, inherited from a time before the neighborhood was fully ordered.