Calle de Toledo

Straddling along the Centro and Arganzuela districts, it starts at the Plaza Mayor and ends at the Glorieta de las Pirámides.[1] It was already named Toledo in the 16th century.[2] Until the late 15th century it ended at the Hospital of La Latina.[2] In the early 17th century the part near the Plaza Mayor was widened.[2] Following the 1790 fire in the Plaza Mayor, the buildings of the Portal de Cofreros were rebuilt with new materials following the anti-fire regulations dictated by Juan de Villanueva.[3] The street consolidated as one of the specialised commercial streets in the city centre by the early 20th century.[4] The image of the northernmost end near the Plaza Mayor became a part of the Antifascist collective memory with the photograph of the ¡No pasarán! banner[n. 1] hanged in the street during the Spanish Civil War.[5]

The landmarks located in the street include La Fuentecilla[6] (at the junction with the calle de Arganzuela) and the Instituto San Isidro.[7]

On 20 January 2021, four people were killed in a building explosion.[8]

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  The street circa 1890
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  Female street vendors in the street next to the market of La Cebada (c. 1900)

Informational notes

Citations

Bibliography

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• Miguel Salanova, Santiago de; Rodríguez Martín, Nuria. "Modernización comercial y nuevas formas de ocio y consumo en el Madrid del primer tercio del siglo XX" (PDF). In Ibarra Aguirregabiria, Alejandra (ed.). No es país para jóvenes. ISBN 978-849860-636-2.
• Muro, Fuensanta; Rivas, Pilar (1994), "Proyecto y realidad en la construcción del Madrid borbónico" (PDF), Madrid y los Borbones del siglo XVIII: la construcción de una ciudad y su territorio, Madrid: Consejería de Cultura, Deportes y Turismo de la Comunidad de Madrid, pp. 87–114, ISBN 84-505-0871-1
• Peñasco de la Puente, Hilario; Cambronero, Carlos (1889). Las calles de Madrid: noticias, tradiciones y curiosidades. Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de D. Enrique Rubiños.