Calle Castellón de la Plana

The name travels from the Mediterranean to the heart of El Viso: Castellón de la Plana, capital of the Valencian province that stretches beside the sea between orchards and mountains. The place name holds a castle within it, the fortress that defended the original settlement perched on a hill; the addition “de la Plana” points to the fertile plain to which the population descended in the Middle Ages. The calle Castellón de la Plana runs parallel to Velázquez within the layout of the estate that Rafael Bergamín built in the 1930s. The neighbourhood itself takes its name from a “viso,” a raised piece of ground on one of the highest points of Madrid, from which the horizon can be surveyed.