Glorieta de Jaime Campmany

The Glorieta de Jaime Campmany, in the Guindalera neighbourhood, remembers a journalist who for nearly three decades wrote, every morning, the most talked-about political column in the Spanish press. Campmany, born in Murcia in 1925, started in radio and news-agency journalism before founding the weekly Época in 1985, which he ran until the turn of the century. His byline became a daily fixture in October 1977, when ABC began publishing a column that portrayed the public life of the Transition with irony and made him one of the most widely read commentators of those years. He kept that appointment with readers until his death, in Madrid, on 13 June 2005. The roundabout opened on 3 May 2010, with mayor Ruiz-Gallardón presiding over the ceremony alongside his widow and daughters.