Calle de Campanar

Guindalera

The street takes its name from the Valencian district of Campanar, an independent municipality between 1836 and 1897, when it was annexed to Valencia. The place name appears in the Llibre del Repartiment of 1242 and is mostly attributed to the Valencian camp (field), though the medieval written form has produced alternative hypotheses linked to a bell tower.

Calle de Campanar climbs northward through La Guindalera and ends near the Avenida de los Toreros. Halfway along opens the Glorieta del Campanar, which the street register records under the same Valencian name. The street is born within what was the Colonia Madrid Moderno, a low-rise development the businessman Mariano Santos Pinela set going around 1888 with the architect Julián Marín. Between 1890 and 1906 they raised there Moorish Revival and Art Nouveau dwellings, a fancy of exposed brick in a Madrid growing in fits and starts. The name travels from Valencia. Campanar is a district in the city’s northwest that became an independent municipality in 1836 and ended up annexed in 1897. Its written trace is far older: the Llibre del Repartiment of 1242 already records it. The most accepted account links it to the Valencian camp, field. What no one has managed to document is why a street in La Guindalera bears the name of that Valencian town.
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