In the small gardens on Ferraz Street, at the entrance to the West Park next to Plaza de España and very close to the Church of Saint Teresa and Saint Josephhe and Temple of Debod  and in front of our darling Gallardo House, jewel of Madrid modernism, is the monument of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, dedicated to Madrid in 1981 by the Mexican people.

It is the work of the Cantabrian Enrique Fernandez Criach commissioned by a group of Mexicans residing in Madrid. It was cast in bronze in Madrid by the sculptor Jose Luis Fernandez.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, born in San Miguel Nepantla on November 12, 1651 and who died in Mexico, on April 17, 1695, was a nun of the Order of San Jerónimo and New Spain writer, exponent of the Golden Age of literature in Spanish. She cultivated lyric, auto sacramental and theater, as well as prose.

A figure where they converge Gongora, Quevedo y Calderon.

Little known, even though many of us passed by it on many occasions. Pay attention to it the next time you pass by.

A abrazo.