Calle de la Alameda
For an old poplar grove — an alameda — that stood beside the gardens of the Duke of Lerma’s palace, where the Hotel Palace now rises. It already appears as “calle de la Alameda” on Espinosa’s 1769 map.
The name keeps a vanished landscape: the poplars of the orchards and gardens the nobility kept beside the paseo del Prado. From them came the Alameda, or Arboleda, which named one of the two lanes that today form the street; the other was called Leche.
On Teixeira’s 1656 map the lane still had no label. By Espinosa’s map of 1769 it carried its own. When those poplars were planted has been lost to time.
Its names
- Sin denominación registrada1656
- Calle de la Arboledah.1700
- Calle del Indianoh.1700
- Calle de la Leche / Nuestra Señora de la Lecheh.18th century
- Calle de la Alamedah.1769
Sources (8)
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