Calle Candelaria Mora

The street is short, barely seventy-odd metres, in the Legazpi area. Here twentieth-century Madrid had its municipal slaughterhouse and its fruit and vegetable market, built beside the Manzanares; over the years the old Matadero was turned into a cultural centre, and the neighbourhood grew up around that work. Candelaria comes from the feast of 2 February, a day of lit candles that gives its name to many women on the Catholic calendar. Mora is a surname widespread across the peninsula. Together they point to a particular person whose trace never reached the official record.