Calle de Toledo

Type	street
Location	Madrid, Spain
North end	Plaza Mayor
South end	Glorieta de las Pirámides

The Calle de Toledo is a historic street in central Madrid, Spain, running across the Centro and Arganzuela districts.

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 [es]^[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]

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

Informational notes

Citations

Bibliography

• Alpuente, Moncho (14 April 1994). "Heráldica y zoología". El País.
• Fraguas, Rafael (14 September 2005). "La mejor orla de Madrid". El País.
• Gil, Andrés (17 July 2017). "Del 'No Pasarán' a cuatro décadas de franquismo: 81 años del 18 de julio que desató la Guerra Civil". eldiario.es.
• Mayayo, Andreu (18 September 2018). "¡No pasarán!". In Vinyes, Ricard (ed.). Diccionario de la memoria colectiva. Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa. ISBN 978-84-16919-35-2.
• 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.