Plaza de Canalejas (Madrid)

Canalejas Square, formerly known as Plaza de las Cuatro Calles, is located in the Centro district of Madrid, Community of MadridSpain, between Carrera de San Jerónimo and Calle de la Cruz, Calle de Sevilla and Calle del Príncipe.

It is named after the politician and orator José Canalejas Méndez (1854-1912), who was murdered by an anarchist while looking at the window of the now defunct San Martín bookstore, located on the neighbouring Puerta del Sol corner of Calle de Carretas, about a hundred metres from this square.

Main attractions

The urban space is nestled between buildings of unique architecture, including:

The limestone Banco Hispano Americano building, which was formerly Banco Hispano Americano (later Grupo Santander), designed by Eduardo Adaro Magro in 1902, located at number 1, on the corner of Carrera de San Jerónimo.

The Casa de Allende or Casa de Tomás Allende, which occupies another corner of Carrera, at number 3, dates from 1920. This building, designed by Leonardo Rucabado Gómez, generous in construction elements, has a wooden Cantabrian-style viewing point, unique in Madrid, and a ceramic finish by Daniel Zuloaga Boneta.

At number 4, sharing a plot with the Casa de Allende, is the Meneses building in eclectic style, which the widow of the financier Meneses commissioned to be built in 1914 by the architects José María Mendoza Ussía and José de Aragón Pradera, and was completed in 1915.

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