Avenida de Bruselas
The avenue takes its name from Brussels, capital of Belgium, under a convention applied wholesale to the streets of the Parque de las Avenidas residential complex (first phase, 1958): all were given the names of European cities beginning with B, with no source documenting why.
When the property company CIOHSA commissioned its architects to build a development in the east of the Guindalera, it chose a singular criterion for naming the streets: European cities beginning with B. The Avenida de Bruselas heads that roster and is the backbone of the whole complex, known as the Parque de las Avenidas. The only street that breaks the rule is the Plaza de Venecia, and no one knows the reason behind that shared initial.
Work on the first phase began in March 1958 on some 40 hectares of market garden stretching between the Abroñigal stream and the Canalillo. The Avenida de Bruselas was born as the northward extension of calle Azcona, lengthened until it linked up with the Avenida de América.
Beneath the avenue’s asphalt runs Metro line 7, whose Parque de las Avenidas station opened on 17 March 1975.