Plaza de María Guerrero

María Guerrero (Madrid, 1867-1928) was the most celebrated actress of her time and a manager who changed the way the stage was understood in Spain. She became inseparable from the role of Doña Inés in Don Juan Tenorio, and in 1908 she acquired, with her husband Fernando Díaz de Mendoza, the Teatro de la Princesa, which now bears her name and houses the National Drama Centre. Her life had a novelistic chapter. Her eldest son had an affair with the actress Carola Fernán Gómez, whom the family sent to America without knowing she was expecting a child. That child was Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the great names of Spanish cinema, the never-acknowledged grandson of the woman who gives this square in El Viso its name.