Calle de Clavileño

The name comes from a horse that never existed and, what is more, never flew. Clavileño is the wooden mount that some mocking dukes present to Don Quixote and Sancho in the second part of Cervantes’s novel. They assure them that, riding blindfolded through the heavens, they will break an enchantment; the horse never leaves the ground, while servants shake it and hold bellows and lit tow near it to feign winds and regions of fire. It carries a peg on its forehead by which they claim to steer it, it is made of wood, and it moves so lightly that it seems to have wings. The street traces one of the edges of the Colonia de La Prosperidad, in a stretch of Ciudad Jardín dotted with low villas and small gardens.