Calle Campánulas

The bellflower is a plant with a bell-shaped corolla, its petals opening into a small hanging cup, almost always in shades of blue and violet. Its name means “little bell,” and many of its species are hardy, able to take root on banks and walls where few others thrive. The street belongs to a corner of Nueva España laid out with plant names. A few steps away run Drácena, Saxífraga, Azulinas and Madreselva, streets that turned this sector of villas and low houses into a kind of urban herbarium. Whoever walks here reads, plaque after plaque, a small botanical catalogue.