Calle Santorcaz
Takes its name from Santorcaz, a town in eastern Madrid whose place-name arose from devotion to Saint Torquatus.
The name takes us to eastern Madrid, to Santorcaz, one of the oldest towns in the region. The place-name holds a saint within it: legend attributed its founding to Saint Torquatus, and from that devotion—San Torcaz, worn down over the centuries—came Santorcaz. The honoree was Torquatus of Acci, counted among the apostolic men to whom tradition entrusted the evangelization of southern Hispania back in the first century.
The place carries a memory older than its Christian name. In the castle of Torremocha, summer residence of the archbishops of Toledo and later a prison, Ana de Mendoza, the famous Princess of Éboli, was confined before ending her days in Pastrana.
The El Viso neighborhood arranged many of its streets with the names of towns in Madrid. Santorcaz brought here, in barely a hundred meters, a town of walls, a castle turned into a jail and a princess fallen from grace.