Cordón square is a small square in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain, Royal Palace neighborhood, in the Centro district. The streets of San Justo, Doctor Letamendi, Sacramento, and the homonymous Cordón that descends from this square to Segovia Street converge here.
History
It appears written as a small square of Cordón and well delimited in the plan of Texeira (1656), and later in that of Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros of 1769. There are records of private constructions from 1725. In the 19th century it was arranged within the Puerta Cerrada neighborhood, in the old district of the Audiencia, as recorded by Ángel Fernández de los Ríos, in his Guide to Madrid of 1876.
Another chronicler from Madrid, Pedro de Répide, presents it as a “venerable and peaceful place”, highlighting in its surroundings the balcony of the Casa de Cisneros and the perspective of the old church of San Justo y Pastor, on the neighboring street of San Justo.
Répide explains that the enclosure takes its name from to the primitive house, which was a prison for the royal secretary Antonio Pérez, confined there by his king, Philip II of Spain.
The writer and critic Eugenio d’Ors Rovira lived at number 2 in the square.
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