Calle de Andalucía

Calle de Andalucía evokes the southernmost region of Spain, in a corner of the old Pacífico area whose streets were gradually named after Spanish lands. The precise reason for this dedication is not documented. The name comes from the Arabic al-Andalus, the term Muslims used for the territories they ruled on the peninsula. From there it passed into Spanish in the thirteenth century. Several theories circulate about the ultimate origin of al-Andalus, none of them settled. The street belongs to the Adelfas grid, the eastern half of old Pacífico, a settlement of low houses once known as “Las Californias” that the urban renewal of the 1980s turned into a residential neighbourhood. Between modern blocks and the nearby hum of the M-30 ring road, it barely runs past two hundred metres.