Calle de Fernanflor
After Isidoro Fernández Flórez (1840-1902), a writer and journalist who signed his work Fernanflor, founder of Los Lunes de El Imparcial, the most celebrated literary supplement of its day. The city named the street for him in 1902, the year he died; it had previously been called del Florín.
The street honours Fernández Flórez, the journalist behind Los Lunes de El Imparcial, the best-known literary supplement of its time, who also co-founded El Liberal. He joined the Royal Academy in 1898.
It was once calle del Florín, named for a fencing school with rooms here. Tradition recalls Friar Juan Flisco, from the nearby Espíritu Santo convent, killed by a sword thrust as he tried to part two pupils about to duel.
Where that convent stood, the Congress of Deputies was later built, its side façade running along calle de Fernanflor.
Its names
- Calle del Florính.17th century–1902
- Calle de Fernanflor1902
Sources (5)
- Madrid: sus viejas calles — Fernanflor (Calle de)
- Por las calles de Madrid — Calle de Fernanflor
- Isidoro Fernández Flórez — Wikipedia
- Peñasco de la Puente y Cambronero, Las calles de Madrid (1889) — BNE Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
- Isidoro Fernández Flórez — Biblioteca Nacional de España, Escritores en la BNE