Calle Campanillas

Campanilla is the common name for several flowering plants with a bell-shaped corolla: the climbers of the genus Ipomoea, common on railings in summer, and those of the genus Convolvulus, whose flower opens in the morning and closes at dusk. The sign recalls no one and nothing: it simply names the plant. Campanillas belongs to the old garden city of Chamartín, that cluster of low houses with gardens that began to rise at the start of the 20th century following the English model. Those who laid out the colonies named many streets after flowers, and so Campanillas has as neighbors Narcisos, Alhelíes and Jacintos. It is not documented why this flower was chosen: the criterion was one of the whole.