María Mato de Soraya y Zargo Street

Typical street sign in Monsa and view of María Mato de Soraya y Zargo Street.

María Mato de Soraya y Zargo Street (Monsan: Calle de María Mato de Soraya y Zargo) is a street in the city of Monsa, which runs from east to west in the neighbourhood of Conquistadores. The street is filled with mostly residential low-rise buildings and small shops, highlighting the embassy of Blackhelm Confederacy on its beginning in the Conquistadores Boulevard; from its beginning, the street is crossed by several other important streets and avenues, such as Duque de Zagaleta St. and Fernando Schroeder St. It was named after the writer, politician and member of the Colegio, María Mato de Soraya y Zargo.

Overview

The street runs from east to west, almost entirely in the neighbourhood of Conquistadores before ending on the Square of Constituyentes (Plaza de los Constituyentes), which marks the limit with the Monasterio neighbourhood. On the intersection with Conquistadores Boulevard, there is an entrance to a public underground parking that runs along the street and whose other exit is on the Francisco Salazar Avenue. Before 1991, the street was named Goya and was changed by a popular initiative that promoted a referendum in the city to change the name of the street in commemoration of María Mato de Soraya y Zargo, a well-known writer and politician of Monsa, that lived in the number 884 of the street. Since 2001, the street keeps a velocity limit at 30 km/h, which makes it bicycle-friendly.

From its beginning on the intersection with the Conquistadores Boulevard and like most streets in Monsa, Ma. Mato de Soraya y Zargo is filled with a dense vegetation; since the 1920's, when these were introduced, the city's municipality keeps the Ginkgo biloba trees as the most common type, making it a symbol of most residential narrow streets. Like the rest of streets in Conquistadores and the surrounding neighbourhoods, Ma. Mato de Soraya y Zargo is equipped with a high presence of urban furniture, such as planters with flowers on every corner, bollards, benches on appropriate spaces and street lights of warm orange light.

Notable buildings and squares

Throughout the first section of the María Mato de Soraya y Zargo Street, notable buildings include the redaction centre and offices of the El Día newspaper and the embassy of the Blackhelm Confederacy, which is located in one of the typical five-storey buildings that fill the street along its course. At the number 884 of the street, a plaque commemorates the former residence of the María Mato de Soraya y Zargo, who gives name to the street. Continuing to the west, the Ma. Mato de Soraya y Zargo ends in an intersection that creates the Square of Constituyentes, which commemorates the signing of the Constitution of Monsa in 1903.

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  El Día newspaper redaction centre and offices; María Mato de Soraya y Zargo and Conquistadores.

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  Embassy of Blackhelm Confederacy at María Mato de Soraya y Zargo 740.

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  View of the Constituyentes Square and fountain.

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  Corner boutique in the intersection between María Mato de Soraya y Zargo and Mancha streets.