Luis de Góngora Street is a short street in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain (in the Justicia neighborhood of the Centro district) between Gravina Street and San Lucas Street, in the Chueca neighborhood. It has had this name since 1961, according to some sources in homage to the culterano poet of the Spanish Golden Age Luis de Góngora y Argote, when it replaced the brief name of Calle de Góngora that it had before, and which did not refer to the Cordoban poet but to the minister of the Council of Castile Juan Jiménez de Góngora, to whom Philip IV of Spain of Spain entrusted the foundation of the convent of the Concepción, on the occasion of the birth of the prince and future king Charles II of Spain.
History
In the Texeira map (1656) it barely appears drawn as a street, while in the Espinosa map of 1769 it is labeled as the Plazuela del Duque de Frías, due to the location in that place of the palace of that family. After the construction of what would be popularly called the convent of the Góngoras (for the second surname of the official of Philip IV in charge of making it a reality in 1665, as already explained), the small street began to be to be called Góngora, a simple name that the Madrid mayor’s office modified on December 13, 1961, (apparently due to pure ignorance of the origin of the aforementioned Góngora, also Luis but not a poet and related to another Felipe), in honor of the chaplain of Philip III of Spain, the poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.
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