The Calle de la Colegiata is a public road in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain, located in the Embajadores neighborhood, Centro district, which runs, in an east-west direction, from the Plaza de Tirso de Molina to the Calle de Toledo. Throughout its history it has had different names, chronologically: Calle de la Compañía, Calle de San Isidro, Calle del Burro, Calle Padilla and finally Calle de la Colegiata.
History
Various chroniclers explain the founded or legendary origins of the various names that this street in the San Millán suburb had. In the Teixeira map it appears as “Calle de la Compañía”, the first name recognized by Mesonero Romanos, who in his descriptive walks through Old Madrid, explains that it got that first name from the Imperial College of the Jesuits, whose accessory doors gave onto it; The expulsion of the order left the street with the circumstantial and topical name of “San Isidro”, the patron saint of Madrid, whose temple, open to Toledo Street, also had a back onto this street.
Colegiata Street achieved the noble rank of ‘journalistic street’, because it housed the editorial offices of two important newspapers published in Madrid, the Heraldo de Madrid, at number 7 (1892-1939) and El Debate (1910-1936).
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