It is located between Calle Estreita de San Andrés and Plaza de Pontevedra and was one of the main communication routes between the Cidade Vella and the new areas of expansion of the city.
History
The street of San Andrés receives its name from the old Hospital of San Andrés, property of the guild of mareantes. The hospital, located where St. Andrew's Church is located, had an adjoining church, and both buildings were destroyed during Drake's siege in 1589. The portico of the church was installed on the wall of the Parrote, near the Archive of the Kingdom of Galicia. The street already appears with its current plan in the plan of Juan Vergel of 1735. However, at that time there were almost no buildings and the street was closer to the sea. Between 1840 and 1875 it was called Espoz y Mina Street and between 1931 and 1936 Capitán García Hernández Street. On October 13, 1900, a warehouse boy and his wife were killed at 152 this street, a crime that remained unsolved.
street, located in center of the city, had a mainly commercial use. It has also been home to several companies and institutions, such as the headquarters of the Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de La Coruña, which was located in a building on the street, demolished in 1969 to build the current Abanca office. The building in which the Real Recreational and Instructive Union of the Circus of Craftsmen settled in 1895 does not exist either, when moving of the street of Juana de Vega. At number 9 was the photographic studio of the pioneer of cinema José Sellier, which gives its name to a nearby square, and at 113 there is still the first grocery store opened in the city by the San Martín family, one of the shops oldest of the city. At number 81 it was until 1963 the Hotel Europa, considered one of the most elegant in the city
Institutions and businesses
In the street of San Andres some outstanding buildings are conserved:
Nº 7, of Julio Galán Carvajal (1908)
Nº 53, of Faustino Domínguez Domínguez (1883) Nº 61, of Juan de Ciórraga (1890)
Nº 67, of Faustino Domínguez Domínguez (1881)
Nº 69-71, by Antonio López Hernández (1912), modernist building with galleries.
No. 101, Telefónica's headquarters, by José María de la Vega Samper (1928-1930), built on the site where the Real Fábrica de Mantelería de La Coruña had been.
Nº 151, Casas Formoso y Cés, by Santiago Rey Pedreira and Pedro Mariño (1930-1932), rationalist.
No. 155, by Eduardo Rodríguez-Losada Rebellón (1931)
No. 14-16, by Bouza and Tredis (1863)
No. 18, by Eduardo Rodríguez-Losada Rebellón (1917)
The Church of Santo André, by Faustino Domínguez Coumes-Gay (1881 -1884), neo-Romanesque temple, built on the initiative of Eusebio da Guarda, buried there with his wife Modesta Goicouría.In front of the church is a cross.
No. 38, by Eduardo Rodríguez-Losada Rebellón (1944)
No. 68, by Ricardo Boán Callejas (1914)
No. 84, by Antonio Tenreiro and Peregrín Estellés (1930)
No. 100, Casa Solla, by Ricardo Boán Callejas (1912-1914), modernist building.
No. 118, La Llave building, by Antonio López Hernández (1910-1911), modernist.
Nº 120, by Julio Galán Carvajal (1908), with a very renovated façade.
Nº 124, by Xosé Caridad Mateo (1935)
Nº 140, by Juan de Ciórraga (1869)
Nº 158-160, by Eduardo Rodríguez-Losada Rebellón (1930) In the Plaza de Santa Catarina is a fountain dedicated to the god Neptune, the oldest of the city.
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