Calle Bolonia
The street takes its name from Bologna, an Italian city in Emilia-Romagna, home to the oldest university in the West. It belongs to the Parque de las Avenidas development, where each street was named after a European city with B, a pattern begun with the Avenida de Bruselas around the wedding of King Baudouin of Belgium to Fabiola de Mora y Aragón (1960).
It is part of the Parque de las Avenidas, built by the developer CIOHSA with municipal permission from 1956. Architects Francisco Echenique Gómez and Luis Calvo Huedo arranged the streets around one axis, the Avenida de Bruselas, and named each street after a European city beginning with B.
The story goes that Brussels was chosen for the wedding of King Baudouin of Belgium to the Spaniard Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, held in December 1960, just as the first homes were being handed over. Around it grew Brescia, Bonn, Berna, Burdeos and Berlín. The series has one oddity: the Plaza de Venecia, which breaks the initial.
The Calle Bolonia fits on its own merits: the Italian city holds the oldest university in the West, founded in 1088, and the Royal College of Spain that Cardinal Gil de Albornoz created in 1364.