Calle de Bruno Ayllón

The name points to a person, Bruno Ayllón, with his first name and surname engraved on the sign. Who he was and why Madrid remembered him in this stretch of Cuatro Caminos is unrecorded. The street belongs to historic Cuatro Caminos, an area that in the late nineteenth century filled with humble people drawn by cheap land at the city’s edge. Here the small names —⁠a resident, an owner, a forgotten benefactor⁠— mingled with the great figures of official nomenclature, and many reached the street map leaving no written trace. Bruno Ayllón is one of them.