Calle Cedros
Named after the cedar, the great mountain tree, within a cluster of Almenara streets christened with the names of trees.
The cedar lends its name to this street in Almenara. It is a mountain tree, with a straight trunk and a flat crown, tied to the ranges of Lebanon, the Atlas and the Himalayas; its resinous timber, resistant to woodworm, perfumed temples and chests for millennia.
Why this tree was chosen for a street in northern Madrid was never recorded. Calle Cedros belongs to a group of local streets labelled with the names of trees and plants, a common habit as the city organised the old outskirts of Tetuán de las Victorias.
Whoever walks the street today will find no ancient cedars, only an ordinary urban road whose name evokes a tree of distant peaks in a corner of the city that rose without great trees.