Calle de Abel

Bears the surname of Pedro Abel, owner of the land where the street was opened in the early twentieth century.

Despite the biblical echo, the name does not come from the shepherd of Genesis. When the street was laid out over the Bellas Vistas lands, around 1906, the plans labelled it with the surname of the landowner, Pedro Abel. On 18 November 1943 the sign was trimmed to the plain Abel that survives today. At number 17, in a villa with a Neo-Mudéjar air, lived and worked the painter Marceliano Santa María, from Burgos, who painted Castilian landscapes and large history canvases. He died there in 1952, aged 86. The street runs between Pedro Barreda and Doctor Federico Rubio y Galí, in the Bellas Vistas neighbourhood. Two hundred and fifty metres that seem to come from Genesis and were born of a landowner.