Plaza de Ortega y Munilla

José Ortega Munilla, a writer and journalist born in Cuba in 1856, married the daughter of El Imparcial’s founder and ended up running the paper. He turned it into a platform for the young writers of the Generation of '98, giving the front page to Azorín, Pío Baroja and Valle-Inclán while they were still making their way. He joined the Royal Academy in 1902 and left more than a thousand articles, along with novels such as Cleopatra Pérez. He was also the father of José Ortega y Gasset, the philosopher behind The Revolt of the Masses, so the square holds the surname of the man who raised one of the central figures of twentieth-century Spanish thought. It opens in the Las Acacias district, where the Paseo de los Olmos and the Paseo de las Acacias meet.