Calle de Burgos
Bears the name of Burgos, the old head of the kingdom of Castile, in a part of Tetuán named after Castilian provinces and cities.
The name comes from Burgos, the Castilian city that for centuries proclaimed itself head of the kingdom. Calle de Burgos belongs to a batch of streets around Bravo Murillo named after Spanish provinces and cities, a municipal custom that gradually filled the north of Madrid with Castilian place-names as the neighbourhood grew.
Tetuán was born almost from nothing: the district took its name from the camp the army pitched after the victory in the Moroccan city of Tetouan, in the War of Africa of 1860, and from there came that “Tetuán de las Victorias” that gradually filled with low houses.
Burgos, by contrast, was the court of the kings of Castile and keeps in the crossing of its Gothic cathedral the remains of El Cid.