Calle de Carmen Portones
Recalls one of the landowners whose fields became the old Tetuán de las Victorias, though almost nothing of her life survives.
The name belongs to the streets that old Tetuán de las Victorias dedicated to the owners of the land. When this corner was still an outlying district of the independent town of Chamartín de la Rosa, the fields north of Madrid were quickly parcelled out into private hands, and many streets took the name of the owner who gave over the ground for development.
No reliable record of the woman survives: no dates, no trade. She appears as owner or heir of the plots, and little more. A few steps away runs the calle de Luis Portones, a sign that the surname belonged to a whole family with land in this stretch of Berruguete.
The setting, though, is precisely dated. Tetuán began as a district of Chamartín de la Rosa, a town Madrid absorbed on 5 June 1948. Carmen Portones thus ended up inside the capital without moving: the municipal boundary crossed over her street while she stayed where she was.