Argumosa Street (popularly known as Lavapiés Boulevard) is a street in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain, that connects Lavapiés Square with the Ronda de Atocha. The official name of the street is due to the honour of the Spanish surgeon Diego de Argumosa who stood out for his surgical work at the neighbouring College of Surgery of San Carlos (Annex to the General Hospital).
The San Lorenzo festivities are celebrated along the road axis of this street (from 8 to 12 August). At the beginning of the 21st century, the street has been transformed into a street of terraces and restaurants of very diverse cultures.
History
The space occupied by Lavapiés Square and part of the current Argumosa Street was, at the end of the 16th century, occupied by a Jewish ghetto whose synagogue was located in the current parish of San Lorenzo. There was once a cemetery nearby.
The houses on this street were part of the so-called “low-class neighbourhoods” of the city. In 1860, the engineer Carlos María de Castro was making plans for the expansion of Madrid and this street was on the border. Its proximity to Santa Isabel Street and the Provincial Hospital attracted the medical atmosphere of the city at the beginning of the century; its rehabilitation and transformation into the Reina Sofía Museum changed the setting of the street.
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