Calle de Cáceres

The calle de Cáceres brings the name of the Extremaduran capital to La Chopera, one of those neighborhood streets that carry Spanish place names scattered across the map like points on a chart. Anyone crossing it on the way to the Manzanares walks, unaware, over the memory of a city more than two hundred kilometers away. What made Cáceres famous is its old town, a maze of medieval and Renaissance palaces, towers and noble houses that survived almost intact and that UNESCO named a World Heritage Site in 1986. Series and films seeking a real medieval city rather than a set have been shot among those stones. Here, though, the name stays on the plaque of a quiet street.