Plaza Juan Muñoz Martín

Juan Muñoz Martín was born in Madrid in 1929 and taught secondary school for years before an absent-minded friar and a tireless pirate made him one of the most widely read children’s authors in Spanish. In 1980 his pen produced Fray Perico y su borrico, which sold more than a million copies, and two years later El Pirata Garrapata, with its crew of impossible names. He died in February 2023, and the city council approved his name barely three months later. He lived in Tetuán, which is why the square that recalls him opens here, next to Cuatro Caminos, with entrances off Bravo Murillo and Garellano, on the lot that for decades held the depots first of the trams and later of the EMT buses. Where the city’s vehicles once slept there is now an open space for the neighborhood.