Espacio peatonal Mª Luisa Suárez Roldán

María Luisa Suárez Roldán (Madrid, 1920-2019) entered law school in 1941 as the only woman enrolled in her year. In 1965 she founded, with three other lawyers, one of the first labor-law practices in Franco’s Spain, devoted to defending workers and defendants before the Public Order Court, the body that hunted down political dissent. Through that office passed, as trainees, lawyers who would later shape Spanish justice, among them Manuela Carmena and Cristina Almeida. She was a member of the Communist Party for more than sixty years. She lived in Prosperidad and was tied to the Valle-Inclán neighborhood association, which after her death proposed naming this space for her. The small pedestrian plaza opens at the meeting of López de Hoyos and Clara del Rey, with a plaque remembering the neighbor.