Calle Alejandro Rodríguez

The name points to a person, but no reliable record survives of who this Alejandro Rodríguez was or why a street in Bellas Vistas remembers him. The dedication remains undocumented. The street runs through Bellas Vistas, meeting Leñeros and Numancia, within the steep, broken grid that marks the neighborhood, a working-class extension that grew from the last third of the 19th century, when newcomers to Madrid sought land cheaper than the center’s. Anyone reading the sign today is left with a street that hides its own name: a faceless Alejandro Rodríguez, lost among the many anonymous residents who shaped this corner of old Tetuán de las Victorias.