Travesía Berruguete

A travesía crosses or links two larger streets, and this one springs up beside the calle de Berruguete, from which it borrows its surname. The name marks a position more than a story. Through its parent street, the surname points to Alonso González de Berruguete, born around 1488 in Paredes de Nava, in the lands of Palencia. He is held to be the greatest sculptor of the Spanish Renaissance, author of altarpieces and religious figures of intense, almost sorrowful expression. After training with his father, the painter Pedro Berruguete, he traveled to Italy and worked in the circle of Michelangelo. The whole neighborhood, one of the six in Tetuán, also carries this surname. It is a short stretch, opened to connect, that carries the name of a Palencia artist all the way to the north of Madrid.