Calle Eduardo Palacios

Recalls Eduardo de Palacio, a nineteenth-century writer and journalist who signed his columns as “Sentimientos.”

Behind this short street in El Viso, which the registry lists as calle de Eduardo del Palacio, stands Eduardo de Palacio y Huera, a writer and journalist born in Málaga around 1835 and died in Madrid in 1900. He wielded his pen at the pace of the newsrooms of his time and left novels, plays and, above all, thousands of lines of print. His name filled the most widely read papers of late nineteenth-century Madrid: El Imparcial, El Liberal, Madrid Cómico. He signed many of his columns with the pen name “Sentimientos,” under which he also wrote about bullfighting, one of the great passions of the public back then. He died in a house on calle del Cardenal Cisneros and rests in the San Lorenzo cemetery. Anyone crossing these blocks treads the trail of a byline that readers recognized by a single word: “Sentimientos.”