Glorieta de Quevedo

The name celebrates Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, born in Madrid in 1580, a poet and prose writer of razor-sharp language who left satires, sonnets and the picaresque novel El Buscón. His surname was given to this square in 1860, as the city began to organize and name its northern expansion. Before it was a roundabout, the spot was a crossroads on the outskirts, beside the old Puerta de Fuencarral, where the roads left toward the village of Fuencarral and, beyond it, toward France. That junction gave the square its circular shape and its role as a crossing point between Fuencarral, San Bernardo and Bravo Murillo. At the center stands the monument to the writer, carved by Agustín Querol in the early 20th century. Beneath the square, the Quevedo metro station opened in 1925 and served for a few years as the terminus of a Madrid growing toward Cuatro Caminos.