Avenida del Valle
The name carries the idea of “valley” from the old Vallehermoso, the Chamberí spot that neighbors named for its landscape, though the exact reason for the avenue’s title was never recorded.
The Avenida del Valle runs along the northern edge of Vallehermoso, the Chamberí neighborhood whose name was born among its residents. Before the city reached this ground, the spot was known as the “beautiful valley,” and from that popular name comes the idea of a valley that the avenue keeps.
No record survives of the exact reason for the title. The street was laid out when the area was built up in the twentieth century, beside the grounds of the Canal de Isabel II, whose water reservoirs shaped the character of the district for decades. Other nearby streets recall that waterworks that brought Lozoya water, and “del Valle” sits close to that family of names without any documented link to it.
Today it is a quiet, residential street, looking out on the sports facilities that occupy the Canal’s old reservoirs.