Calle de Génova

It is the dividing line between the neighbourhoods of Justicia and Almagro, in the respective districts of Centro and Chamberí.

The street was called the Ronda de Santa Bárbara until 1859 and the Ronda de Recoletos until 1 October 1886, when the City Council of Madrid renamed it after Genoa, the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, whose name is carried by the square at its end.

The building, at the corner with the Calle de Zurbano, was formerly the Palace of the Marquises of Bedmar.

[5] There is a plaque at number 24 to mark the birthplace in 1903 of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of Falangism.

[8] José Luis Sánchez Fernández [es]'s sculpture Herón is situated outside, and in an island halfway across the road is Woman with Mirror, donated by Fernando Botero as the most popular piece from his 1994 exhibit.

Calle de Génova as viewed from the Plaza de Colón . The Torres de Colón dominate the right of the photograph, while the sculpture Woman with Mirror can be seen on the pedestrian island at the end of the road.