Calle Abantos

Some fifty kilometers from this Prosperidad pavement rises the mountain that gave the street its name. Abantos crowns 1,753 meters above San Lorenzo de El Escorial, and from its summit opens one of the most celebrated views of the Royal Monastery and of the whole southeastern slope of the Guadarrama range. The mountain’s name comes from a bird: abanto is another name for the Egyptian vulture, that white-and-brown raptor, kin to the vultures but smaller, which nested on these slopes. Abantos belongs to the roster of mountain peaks after which the streets of this part of Madrid were named.