Calle del Marqués de Monasterio

Las Salesas·Justicia

The street takes its name from the marquisate of Monasterio, a title held by the Osorio de Moscoso family, owners of the plot where the Teatro de la Princesa (today Teatro María Guerrero) was built in 1885. The theater’s promoter was Alfonso Osorio de Moscoso y Osorio de Moscoso (1857-1901), 11th marquis of Monasterio, though the plot belonged to his mother, the 10th marquise María Eulalia Osorio de Moscoso y Carvajal. The street was opened when the theater block was laid out, around 1885, with no earlier name recorded.

Barely ninety-two meters, straight as a ruler, in the heart of the Justicia district. The street exists for one concrete reason: when the plot where the Teatro María Guerrero now stands was developed, the perpendicular street had to be named, and it was given the name of a marquisate. That title, created by Philip IV in 1625, ended up with the Osorio de Moscoso family, who came to hold more than a hundred noble titles. The one who left a mark on the map was Alfonso Osorio de Moscoso, 11th marquis, who commissioned from Agustín Ortiz de Villajos a theater without cheap seats, meant only for high society: hence the neo-Mudéjar decor and the horseshoe hall. The Teatro de la Princesa opened in 1885 before the regent queen María Cristina, and changed its name in 1931 after the death of the actress María Guerrero. Whoever passes here walks, unknowing, over the whim of a marquis who wanted a theater for his own.

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  • Calle del Marqués de Monasterioc. 1885 - actualidad
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