Calle Lorenzana

Before it bore this surname, the street was called calle del Puerto. The change came in 1887, when the city chose to remember Juan Álvarez de Lorenzana y Guerrero, born in Oviedo in 1818 and died in Madrid in 1883. Lorenzana made his name with the pen before the podium: he was above all a journalist, wrote in El Diario Español and sat as a deputy for Asturias. He took part in the revolution that dethroned Isabella II in 1868 and, under Serrano’s provisional government, held the Ministry of State between that September and February 1869. Later he was ambassador to the Holy See and a senator for life. The street is short and runs between calle Francos Rodríguez and the paseo de la Dirección, in Berruguete.