Travesía de los Señores de Luzón

Los Austrias·Palacio

The name recalls the Luzón family, minor nobility of Castilian origin whose ancestral home stood at number 4 of this street, beside the parish of San Salvador. The surname comes from the town of Luzón, in the district of Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara), from whose lordship the family’s first members took their name. The alley takes its name from the main street it leads to.

The travesía de los Señores de Luzón serves as a side entrance to the calle de los Señores de Luzón and links it to the area around the plaza del Biombo, in the Los Austrias quarter. Its layout still traces the medieval block raised on the plot of the Luzón family. There, at number 4, Pedro de Luzón kept a house with a tower and coat of arms. A man of the Madrid of John II of Castile, he piled up posts at the royal fortresses the way others collect titles. When the entailed estate died out, the property changed hands until it was demolished in 1935 to build the apartment block that stands there today. The surname came from the town of Luzón, in Guadalajara, and married into the Luján family, joining the two leading houses around the plaza de la Villa.

Its names

  • Calle de los EstelosSiglo 14th – 15th century
  • Calle de Luzón (tramos)Siglo 15th
  • Calle de San SalvadorSiglo 16th – 1656
  • Calle de LuzónSiglo 17th – 20th century
  • Travesía de los Señores de LuzónSiglo 20th – actualidad
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