Calle Juan de Vera

The name honors Juan de Vera, a sculptor and painter settled in Baeza in the late sixteenth century, of whom barely a biographical trace remains. He is credited with the tomb of Pedro Fernández de Córdoba, founder of the University of Baeza. The city council chose the name in 1880, when it named at a stroke many streets of the Ensanche growing toward Delicias. Calle de Juan de Vera starts at the Paseo de las Delicias and runs down to calle de Tomás Bretón, a step from the Paseo de las Yeserías; hence the women’s prison that stands here, now the Victoria Kent Social Reintegration Center, was popularly called “de Yeserías.” The street holds another story. At number 5 Juana Doña spent her last twenty-five years, a trade unionist and feminist persecuted under Franco who spent eighteen years in prison. A plaque has recalled it since 2010.