Calle Baeza

The name points to Baeza, in the province of Jaén, one of the Andalusian cities that best preserve their Renaissance stone. Raised on a hill in the La Loma region, it was Christian frontier land facing the Nasrid kingdom of Granada, and centuries later it flourished thanks to the nobility and clergy who filled its squares with cathedrals, palaces and colleges of golden sandstone. The whole city, together with neighboring Úbeda, has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 2003. The calle de Baeza belongs to the Prosperidad district, an old suburb on the outskirts of Madrid; no record survives of the exact reason the street map assigned the name of this Jaén city here.