Glorieta de López de Hoyos

This roundabout takes its name from the street that ends at it, and the street honors Juan López de Hoyos (d. 1583), humanist, priest, and the town’s first chronicler. The Calle de López de Hoyos follows the line of the old road to Hortaleza. López de Hoyos held the chair of Grammar at the town’s Estudio, where his pupils included Miguel de Cervantes. In 1568, writing the book of funeral honors for Queen Elisabeth of Valois, the teacher included compositions by his student and presented him as his dear and beloved disciple. That page holds the first printed verses of the man who decades later would sign Don Quixote, and it is the only written testimony of the bond between them. The Calle de López de Hoyos is one of the longest in Madrid and begins at this roundabout over the old road to Hortaleza.