Calle Agustín Viñamata

The sign names a person, Agustín by first name and Viñamata by surname, and there certainty ends. No record survives of who this Agustín Viñamata was, nor of why the street was dedicated to him. The surname is extremely rare in Spain, with only a few dozen bearers, and no public figure of that name is reliably tied to the street. The street is short, about 129 metres, in the Adelfas neighbourhood south of Retiro. It is one of the youngest, most residential corners of the area, built in the twentieth century far from the grand layout of its neighbours. The district’s own name points to the oleander, the pink-flowered shrub that grew here in abundance before the land was developed.