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Things of the Madriles is a blog about Madrid, places, characters, festivals and traditions. History, culture and curious things The first Marquis of Vadillo, Francisco Antonio Salcedo and Aguirre, was one of the most popular mayors of Madrid since he took office at the beginning of the eighte*nth century. In his time as ruler, the first lanterns that illuminated the streets of the city are due. He ordered the neighbors to install lanterns on the facades of their houses no more than one hundred steps from each other. It was a priority for the Council of Madrid to reduce the frequent night crimes, but it lacked enough money to install thousands of lanterns and the mayor decided that each family would light its façade. The paving of streets, the decorum of the city, the repair of roads or as*istance to the poor centered their mandate. At that time, Madrid had about 120,000 inhabitants. When he was appointed corregidor of Madrid in 1715, he already had a good reputation for his work in high positions in the Administration and had the confidence of Felipe V, the first Bourbon king in Spain, whom he had supported during the War of Succession at his expense. an infantry body of 5,000 soldiers to defend the cause of the king. As a reward, the monarch granted him in 1712 the noble title, whose name comes from El Vadillo, a town in the province of Soria where his family had properties and livestock. Before coming to Madrid he had been mayor of Plasencia (Cáceres), a city with fond memories, so a year after arriving in the capital he commissioned the young architect Pedro de Ribera to build an exit road to Extremadura. hermitage dedicated to the Virgin of the Port, patroness of Plasencia, of whose image a replica was made. The origin of this image is located in the port of Lisbon from where the people of Placentinos took this devotion. Hermitage of the Virgin of the Port (File: Memory of Madrid)