Calle de Asunción Castell
Bears the name of the owner of the land through which the street was laid out, in the Tetuán that was being developed in the early twentieth century.
This Cuatro Caminos street opened around 1928 over the old Tetuán de las Victorias. No biography of Asunción Castell survives: she appears as the plot’s owner and little else.
It was a common practice in the Madrid that was growing northward, where much of the neighbourhood’s streets were labelled with the names of those who owned the land through which they were opened. Alongside Asunción Castell run Manuel Luna and Las Mercedes; nearby passes La Coruña, this one already named after the Galician city.
When these blocks were laid out, what is now a dense fabric of homes and workshops was still land for sale, plots gradually taking the shape of a city.