Glorieta de los Sagrados Corazones

At the crossing of three streets in the El Viso district, this roundabout carries the name of the church that rises beside it: the parish of the Sagrados Corazones. The devotion joins the Heart of Jesus with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, two images that popular piety contemplates together as an expression of God’s love. Behind the name there is also a congregation with a history. It was founded in 1800, in the years after the French Revolution, by the priest Pierre Coudrin and Henriette Aymer de Chevalerie, on the calle Picpus in Paris; from that address they are still known as the fathers and mothers of Picpus. The church that gives the roundabout its name was consecrated in 1965, on a design by the architect Rodolfo García-Pablos. Its hexagonal floor plan shows from the air like a gray concrete honeycomb, a few steps from the Santiago Bernabéu stadium.