Calle de Andrea Puech

Andrea Puech owned the first house built on this stretch of Valdeacederas, and the council fixed her name in the street records in 1941, when what are now aligned façades was still a half-built edge of Tetuán. That way of naming streets tells how the neighbourhood grew. Tetuán de las Victorias rose as an outskirt of low little houses, parcelled out by small owners who built plot by plot. Many streets took the name of whoever held the land or the first dwelling there, ordinary people whose surname was etched on the blue plate. The surname Puech is of Occitan origin, from southern France, where puech names a hillock or hill. A woman of whom only the name remains left her trace in a little over a hundred metres of asphalt, among blocks that no longer recall the first house raised here.