Calle de Alberto León Peralta

This short street belongs to the old Colonia de los Rosales, also called Alfonso XIII, built between 1928 and 1929 as cooperative housing for municipal employees and workers, when this land was still the independent town of Chamartín de la Rosa. The complex was arranged around a circular square, from which streets with rural, sentimental names radiate like spokes: Hiedra, Poniente, Levante, Avenida del Recuerdo. Among them opens Alberto León Peralta. Who this Alberto León Peralta was is not reliably documented. The name has the shape of a personal tribute, probably to someone tied to the cooperative, but no record survives of the reason, nor has a verifiable biography been attached to it. What does remain is the atmosphere of that neighbourhood of small villas and gardens. The street still keeps some of the low houses of the original colony, now surrounded by the taller buildings of the Castilla neighbourhood, one of the few 1920s layouts that survived the growth of Plaza de Castilla.