Calle de Manuel Fernández y González

Fernández y González was the king of the Spanish serial. He wrote in torrents, lived like a bohemian and was reputed to dictate several novels at once, leaping from one cloak-and-dagger plot to another without losing the thread. The plaque carries a mistake many guides repeat: he was born in Seville, not here. The dedication honors his work, but the confusion persists because it was his death, not his birth, that took place in Madrid. Earlier the street was named after the first convent of the Visitation, which Queen Margaret of Austria eventually relocated for a colorful reason: the nuns had a playhouse right against their wall, with all its din.