Placita de Marisa de Antonio
A pedestrian space in the Niño Jesús neighborhood (Retiro district) named after a nursery-school teacher who died in 2022. The name, proposed by residents, appears on a metal plaque; there is no record in the digitized municipal bulletin or in independent editorial sources.
The Niño Jesús neighborhood grew on land freed up when the Tajuña railway moved its terminus to Vicálvaro in 1964. Its name comes from the children’s hospital founded by the Duchess of Santoña in 1877. The surrounding streets gather soldiers, clergy and 19th-century figures: Ángel Ganivet, Francisco de Vitoria, Averroes, Conde de Cartagena.
Placita de Marisa de Antonio belongs to a practice the City Council began to promote in the mid-2010s: naming small pedestrian pockets with names put forward by residents themselves.
Marisa de Antonio was a nursery-school teacher who died in 2022. A plaque remembers her for her many years teaching the youngest children. The geographic curiosity is that the square belongs to Niño Jesús, but the plaque ended up just across the boundary, in the neighboring Ibiza district. Beyond that tribute, no fuller biography has survived.
Sources (6)
- OpenStreetMap — Nodo memorial 1891427136 (Placita de Marisa de Antonio)
- Wikimedia Commons — Memorial Plaque of Marisa de Antonio (a kindergarden teacher passed away in 2022)
- Nominatim OpenStreetMap — búsqueda Placita de Marisa de Antonio Madrid
- Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús — Historia
- Gacetín Madrid — Hortaleza inaugura plazuela en homenaje a Marisa Bravo (2019)
- Diario Madrid — Retiro contará con una plazuela dedicada a la química Gabriella Morreale